Haileybury "House, Durham Row, London, E. 1. would web: ome volunlary workers who after retirement from the East and in the process of selfing down in England feel they have leisure {o assist the Society in ils work. Any reader going home and inclined to offer services in Stepney or elsewhere is invited to write to Rear-Admiral C. G. Brodie, Chairman of the Charity Organiza tion Society. Haileybury House, Durham Row. £1, and he is assured of a warm' welcome. The Society is well-known, it has over 30 district committees' in London, and in 1930 fecelved nearly 1.000 applications So far no notice of the number of Buddhist monasteries, nunneries, temples ele. has een taken by the Chinese Government authorities, but, as the number is considerable, it reported that the China Buddhist Society, with the object of ascertaining the exact situation, has sent let {ers to all Buddhist branch societies throughout the Republic to take a census of members. It is reported that in the whole of China, exclusive the five provinces of Szechuen, Honan, Kisngal, Anhui and Hunan, there exist 267000 Buddhist _mon-asterias and nunneries with 738,000 adherents. Including those who live Outside the monasteries, the number Buddhists is over 3,680,000.
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