The Archive · 1937

NEW JAPANESE FLAGSHIP)

Modetnized Mutsu Heads Grand Fleet on Manauvres Tokyo, Feb, 10.

The battleship Mutsu, completely modernized, has. replaced the Nagato as the flagship of the Japanese Comined Fleet and is now. taking part Jin secret grand manceuvres, with 60 other war-vessels, as the fag-this of the new Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, Admiral Osami Nagano, lately Navy Minister, The Mutsu, launched in 1920, dis places 22,700 tons. Tt is the. nowest Of Japan's nine battleships, one of The original nominal speed rating of the Mulsu was 23 knots. The main Armaments consist of eight 16-inch, twenty $5. inch guns and eight S-inch anti-aircraft guns, but it is possible that some changes have been made Ju the course of the recent overhaul.

Reuter. poor and illiterate country people, where the marvellous power of God {s at work, and where the missionary stands in' wonder, And there are other provinces in China where the worker please with God for his Presence and blessing, and the revival he walts for and longs for is Tong in coming but "God is not unrighteous to forget your work and Labour of 1ove"™

Or take the statistical reports of any of the Rible Societies working in China, The N.BSS. gives some records as follows for lest year: Sinkiang, with 6.000.000 people absorbed a tots) of some 5,447 Scriptures, while Mongolia, with a popula ton of less than 2,006,000 inhabitant received a total of 63,07 Scriptures. and Manchoukuo, with a population of 30,000,000 people took a total of 42,002 Scriptures. Burma, which lies along the frontiers of the Chinese Republic, according to the URSS. report for last year, absorbed 46 Scriptures, while Tibel, to the north of Burma, the Land of the Lamas, during the same period took a total of 28,004 Scriptures, "Burma has population of over 14,000,000 while the Forbidden Land is inhabited by nearly 4,000,000 people, Is. there greater opposition to the in Burma thab in other reason be stated in this statistical report?

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