Of the total of 12% mission areas, 21 are confided to the diocesan clergy, commonly called secular priests, The Femaining 108 are assigned to 25 relllous orders or congregations: "the Franciscans (O.P.M)" have 24, the Paris Foreign Mission Society 14, the Lazarists or Vincentians 18, ° the Tesults and the Society of the Divine 'Word 7 each, the Scheut Fathers 6 Gcluaing stranded Ursa, tu, Outer walla), the Dominicans and the Mian Fofelgn Missions' Seach, the Maryknoll Society 4, the Augustin~ ans and the Capuching 3 each, the Fathers of St Columban and. the Parma' Foreign Mission Society 2 each, and twelve other congregations tone each. In addition, nine congregations not officially charged with a mission area share their labours with others; 30. distinct nationalities "are Fepresented among the personnel of Catholic missions in China, 'The future clergy, the seminarists, ggitinae, to show rear,' promise Afajor seminarists increased by 48 to total of 985; minor seminarists, including probationers, advanced by 85 to 5,002.
Lay" catechists number 13,389, school teachers in. the. strict sense 18202, Approximately 40 per cent. of each category are women, While the former have undergone a diminution of 478, the latter have increased by 60S. This would seem to argue a widespread. effort. to place added emphasis on general education even ft the cost of retrenchments in other Important spheres of missionary aetivity. Including the so-called prayer-schools, there are 16,197 schools with total enrollment of 496,522. pupils, total of 1,434,085 Catholics discharged their obligation of going to confession at Toast once during the year, and 1842237 that of receiving Holy Communion, The annual totals of confessions and communions were Fespectively 11,282,171 and 28,708,581, Such figures area good index of genuine religious vitality, for they Imply innumerable nels of self-denial and an immense expenditure of personal effort, Tue Hunan Provincial University thas been converted into a national Institution and will come under the direct management of the National Ministry of Education, Mr. Pi Tsung shih, formerly dean of the National Wuhan University, will be invited to become the president of the institu ton, view of complaints received that Japanese aeroplanes have been flying wer" Peiping, Tientsin, Tsingtao, Tsinan and other places without the necessary permission of the Chinese Government, the Foreign OMice has sent a elretlar telegram to all dis tricls concerned asking for further details of these ificit Mights so as lodge a protest with the Japanese Embassy. The several protasis by the Chinese to the Japanese Government over similar incidents in the past have received no reply, it Is understood.
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