"FROM THE GANGES TO THE SOMME"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 58, 6 September 1923, Page 5

"FROM THE GANGES TO THE SOMME"

The Cambridge Terrace Congregational Hall was well filled last evening, when the Rev. A.,W. M'Millan, of the London Missionary Society, gave his lantern lec-ture,-"From the Ganges-to the Somme/" For two hours he kept his audience keyed up to a high pitch of interest. His pictures were excellently arranged, and well shown. They comprised a wide range of subjects, from photographs of the -jungle and aboriginal life to the beautiful and majestic scenes on the Himalayas.- Benares and its temples and thronging pilgrims (3,000,000 assembling at one time) was particularly interesting. The missionary vas seen at'work in the field and in the hospital. After traversing Northern India a large number of slides were shown-illustrating the life of the Indian troops- on the Western Frontj ; ahd showing the terrible scars of ruthless warfare left on the fields of France. Incidentally, the lecturer men-' tioned that about a million and a quarter troops from all.parts! of India served in the Great War, of whom 70.0C0 had laid down their! lives. He felt that, in return for the sacrifice of-our Indian brethren, we could, do nolhing'of greater value-than to give them the blessings of Christianity. Mr. M'Millan leaves tonight for the South.