Rev. A. M. Chirgwin a Man Or Many Parts The Rev. Arthur Mitchell Chirgwin, general secretary of the London Missionary Society, who is now on a visit to the Society's various stations in China and who is to preach at the service at Union Church this morning at 1020, hails from the West country, having been born in Cornwall in 1885. Educated at Dunheved College, Launceston, Cornwall, and at University College, University of London, he was trained for the ministry at Richmond Theological College, and later took hi: B.A. degree at London University, passing with honours in philosophy.
He was appointed minister of the Congregational Church at Ewell, Surrey, in 1910, transferring in 1916 to the Zion Congregational Church in Bristol, where he remained until 1920, when he was appointed assistant home secretary of the London Missionary Society, a post he held until 1929, when he assumed the post of foreign secretary, being appointed in 1932 general secretary.
Meanwhile it was reported that Gen. Jose Miaja was rushing reinforcements to the Estremadura. front.
The British destroyer, H.M.S. Isis, hurriedly departed from Gibraltar today after several Nationalist destroyers were seen near British waters in the vicinity where the damaged Republican destroyer Jose Luis Chez is anchored. It was presumed that the Isis was dispatched to warn the Nationalists away.—United Press.
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