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. TheOTHER MISSIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS 157increase of workers in 1915 makes it an eventful year forthe Friends Mission in China.A most interesting feature of this increase is that one ofthe new missionaries and two of those returned come fromthe United States of America, thus linking the Society ofFriends in America very closely with that in England in thisforeign mission work.Chinese staff is increased by the return of astudent who has just completed two years training inEngland and America, a man of considerable Christianexperience of life and work, who it is expected will continueto be a great source of strength to the Mission. There hasbeen little, if any, increase in the number of Chineseteachers and evangelists during the year.The medical work in Suining has been fortunate in thereturn from Peking of a student who has just completed hismedical course there, and taken his degree, the firstSzechwan student to acquire this honour.Th| young men connected with the middle schools andthe Union University take an increasingly active part inthe educational and evangelistic work of the mission.TheFieIcJ o{largest and most varied work of theWorfc mission is in the city of Tungchwan, wherethere are fifteen out-stations attached to thecentral one in the city, a boj^s and a girls boarding andday school, men s institute and women s hospitals,In each of the out-stations there is the beginning of aChristian church, and in most of them a primary schooleither for boys or girls or both. These later are a goodsource of supply for the boarding schools for girls andboys in Tungchwan.The work in Tungliang and Suining districts is of asomewhat similar character to that in Tungchwan, thoughnot in development so strong. At Suining a new generalhospital was opened in the beginning of 1915.In Chungking, the oldest station of themission, besides the ordinary church work,boys and girls day schools and middleboarding school for boys, an attempt has been made to