He is the author of a number of books, among them "Pioneers of Freedom," "Beyond the Great, Thirst Line" "The Forward Tread," and. 'Waytaring for Christ" He has visited the United States, Canada, and South Africa. In his younger days he was a keen football' player, and from 1904 to 1908 played for: Cornwall County. One of his chief recreations is tramping, and he claims to have covered most of the English east in his ramblings, In conversation with a_representative of the "North China Daily News" at a small reception given in. his honour on September 2, Mr. Chirgwin. mentioned that just' before leaving London he attended a gathering at which Mr. Edwin Howard, former editor of the "North China Daily News," spoke on the Sino-Japanese situation, and among the, audience was the' Rev. H. G. New: sham, former minister of Union Church, Shanghai, who has now been appointed to the—Congregational, Church at Wilmslow, a suburb of Manchester.
HMS. Aphis arrived on September 4/and moored at the British Naval Buoys,
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