The Shanghai Missionary Assoclalion held a meeting at ihe Chia Inland Mission, 1531 Sinza Road, yes-Merday. The Reception Committee was composed of representatives from the China Inland. Mission, China Bible yi} Sunday" School Union, Door of Hope, Missionary Home, Free Christian School, and Christian and Missionary Alliance, There was a social hour during "which tea was served and then there was singing and prayers conducted by Dr. F, J. Judd, Chairman of the CÁM. Mr, Adam Black, secretary of the Missionary Association, read the minutes of the previous meeting and visitors, including Major George "Walker who has recently succeeded Brigadier Morris, and Mrs, Walker, were introduced, Dr, C. Stanley Smith in his address on his recent trip to West China, which was made partly by road and partly by air, expressed surprise to find the Burma Road in such a good state of repair, Speaking of Chungking, he that he had received a letter from- England saying that there was nothing in London among all its ruins to equal the damage done by indiscriminate bombing of China's Capital, Dr, Smith said that the cost of living in West China had increased over 1000 per cent, and that Chengtu was the most expensive place to live in.
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