PROGRESS IN CHINA
MISSIONARY’S TRIBUTE INTELLIGENCE OF PEOPLE (For Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A thousand miles inland from the coast of China, the Rev. Dr. Arthur Taylor, the secretary in Scotland for the China Inland Mission, was shown a Chinese newspaper containing a photograph of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and a message that they were to succeed to the British Throne following the abdication of King Edward. This fact was mentioned by Dr. Taylor after he arrived to-day by the Niagara as indicative of the progress of China. He was shown that paper with the first news he had received of happenings in England by the driver of a Chinese train by which he was travelling.
Dr. Taylor said: “China to-day is alive, go ahead and intelligent and the people are determined that the country shall progress. It is making amazing progress." Dr. Taylor’s wife, w ( ho is accompanying him, is a daughter of the late Judge Button, formerly of Auckland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19375, 13 July 1937, Page 13
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