Mr. and Mrs. Frank V. Slack left on February 26 for Japan after week spent in Shanghai and Nanking. In his capacity as secretary of the Foreign Department of the Iaterrational Committee ¥.M.C.A. in New York, Mr. Slack has been" fully Joceupied in conferences with YMCA. groups in Shanghai and at the capital. The—nternational " Committee once supplied as many as 90 fraternal secretaries to the Chinese YM.C.A. through the National Committee of Chita here. The number has been greatly reduced in recent cars, partly through the development Chinese leadership and more through the world economic situation so that the present number is twelve, four of whom are on leave America, Through conference with [Mr. Slack, it is hoped that the number of secretaries from Canada. and the United States will be somewhat increased in the coming year. Fraternal secretaries also ere supplied by Denmark, England and Ireland, Through the' visit this week of Mr. Hugo Cedergren, general secretary of the: National Committee of the ¥.M CA. in-Sweden, it is hoped that one, more Swedish secretaries will be sent for ea-operation with the Chinese CAS
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