when the Szechuan missionaries! arrive to-day, numbers are expected from the United Church of Canada Mission, 180 of whom are believed to be eu route here. A house has bean taken in Scott Road for their accommodation and through the aid of the local members of the Cana-dion Church and B.W.A. ladies who helped get the place in readiness, it fs believed that this house combined with local residences of other missionaries will provide enough room for the new-comers. Another} laspert of the situation are the special rater which a local hotel is uiving to refuse missionaries. for] three days during which they are looking for permanent wccommoda-
The BAW.A. whose quietly working zrecial committee have been! Jmecting boats, and finding living Jquartors for numbers who had no tether prospects at the moment, has ved up to date considerably more than 290 in their energetic enpacity. It is estimated that about 150)
/missionarics nnd 70 nor-missionaries Ihave been actually placed in houses land kelped in other ways. A large! house in Avenue Haig lent for this purpose has provided accommodation for 20 persons and a small flat in the central district also lent to the B.W.A. is now being put in read~ jines for the additional strain upon housing capacities to be faced to-day' and to-morrow.
The Missionary Home, known to} missionaries throughout the counwses at the present time 120, inly British with a smaller number of American and other mission-janes. The usual number which the} home accommodates is 100, but dur-the past month this has been' Jatretchod to meet the new demand: fof between 110 and 130.
Thig"Civie Department of A.W.C. has been acting with the Missionary Service Bureau since its foundation, in procuring names of suitable boarding houses, rooms, etc. and in meeting boats. At the present time they have accommodations for about 130 arrivals. Up to tke present 617, Ihave registered ut the Missionary Service Bureau, most of these being missionaries who have no central offices here and are rather at a loss!
know how to live economically during their uncertain sojourn. [Many of these missionaries in turn help the Bureau and meet later arrivals and assist in finding aceommodation for them.
In the same way the American Charch" Mission is meeting the Itathrce districts, Anking, Hagkow and Shangh divisions. AMI those from tue Shanghai district are being lodged in xefidence at St. John's University fand it is usdersiood that in ease Tue Nationalist Government in Wuhan has issued a proclamation' notifying the people throughout [China that the British Government is sending armed forees to Shanghai for the purpose of intimidating the more space is neveled tan provided by the 17 private dwelling on the compound, Curtain portions of the university can ale be utilized. All Women and children of this mission throughout this provisee are. being racuated, except at Nanking where ft is felt there is cary accessibility to Shanghai. Since the besinning 1027, 90. missionaries of the press, the municipal authorities have Acconpixc the vernacular] granted permission to members of the Shanghai and Woosung Police pass through the barbed wire barricades into the Settlement in the levant of their wishing to arrest criminals at any time,
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