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APRIL, 1947. No. 159

THE

ANNUAL REPORT

FOR 1946

of the

RANGOON DIOCESAN

ASSOCIATION (Including the Winchester Mission

to Mandalay)

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DIOCESAN STAFF : Bishop:

The Right Re\'~ George Algernon West, M.A., M.M.

A.roh deaoon1: The Ven. Donald Maxon. The Ven. Luke Po Kun. The Ven. John Aung Hla. The Ven. John Bia. Gya.w.

Diocesan Secretary: Mr. H. Smart. Bishop's Commissaries in England:

The Right Re,•. Norma,n Tubbs. D.D. Rev. W. C. B. Purser, M.A., K-T-H.

RANGOON DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION Founded in 1894 to assiet the work of the Church in Ra.ngoon.

Affllia.ted to 9.P.G., 1905.

Presidenh The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ra.ngoon.

Chairman: 'l'lw l:i!rht Rev. R. S. FrtTe, D.D., The Westminster Bank, 1. Stratford Plact', '

London. W.1.

Executive Committee: The Right Rev. Bishop N. Tubbs, D.I> .. Dea.n of Chester, The Dea.nery, Cheeter. The Rev. W. a. B. Purser. M.A .. K-1-H, Hon. Gen. Secretary and Trea.surer,

The College, Bromley, Kent. Mi1e D. Atwool, R~eela.nd, Bennen, Cornwall.

Re,·. D. C. Atwool, idfi~~t~fn .. ';::~'"feCJ~f:g~'amborne. Cornwa.11, · -·>

Rev. C. K. Hughes. Rev. G. A. R. Thursfleld. Rev. G. E. C. Kna.pp. Miss Druitt. Mr. G. E. Scott. ~··-·· -~-..... _

Westm;nster :::r:~omley, Kent.,~t: ;~!,~§.f;-

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THE THREE ARCHDEACONS Le/1 ' '-' Rigl,r ; J . Aung H la, J . H la Gyaw, L . Po Kun .

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Burma n~ws THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

RANGOON DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION FOR 1946

THE CHURCH IN BURMA. A revolution bas taken place in the Christian life of Burma com­

parable to that which is in progress in the political life of the country. We no longer think of the. Church in terms of the European Mission­aries who are working there. They are a mere handful. The Church of Burma is the Church of the "Nationals" of that country, under their own Priests and Archdeacons, looking forward to the time when -under the guidance of a Burmese, Anglo-Burmese, or Karen Bishop -they become a completely self-supporting· and autonomous diocese of the Catholic Church. Their need of European specialists to train clergy, teachers and nurses will be as great or greater than ever. But such helpers will come under the direction of the diocesan authorities and will not be the servants of the missionary societies in England, though we trust they will still be supported by them.

At the first post-war Diocesan Council held in Rangoon during October, there was a new spirit of confidence and self-reliance mani­fested by the Asiatic clergy. A report of the Council has already been printed in the January issue of the S.P.G. Magazine," Overseas News." Those who have not read this account are earnestly invited to get a copy of it from S.P.G. (annual subscription 2/-, post free) and reflect on what it signifies and presages.

MISSIONARY STAFF. The following missionaries have returned to Burma during the

year:-Canon W. R. Garrad. Rev. C. T. S. Lewis. Miss E. Linstead. Miss J. Chapman. Ven. Archdeacon D. Moxon.

The Rev. George Appleton has been obliged by illness to return to England, and will be unable to go back to Burma. He has accepted the Benefice of Headstone, in the Diocese of London. This will give our Association the opportunity of benefiting from his counsel and advice. His outstanding services to the Government of Burma as Public Relations Officer during the past five years have received

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modest recognition by the conferring upon him of the M.B.E. in the New Year's Honours List.

HOME ORGANISATION. At the last annual meeting of our Association, it was resolved

to form a small ex.ecutive committee of members who lived near enough to London to come together for consultation in case of emergency. There has been no business of any great urgency so far though in these anx.ious times it is necessary to be prepared for anY contingency. The ex.ecutive has, however, already held one meeting during the Autumn. Its members are as follows: Bishop Fyffe Rev. G. E. C. Knapp, Miss Druitt, Rev. G. A. R. Thursfield, Rev'. C. K. Hughes, Mr. G. E. Scott and the Rev. W. C. B. Purser.

Our Association has to face up to an entirely new situation. In the past our supporters and subscribers in England have been made up largely of merchants, civil servants, chaplains and missionaries, who have lived and worked in Burma and who have joined our Association in order to keep in touch with the country in which they have spent the best years of their lives and with people for whom they have retained an affectionate regard. The numbers of those with such connections will now rapidly decrease and others must be found to take their place.

These new subscribers might be found amongst Church people who are eager to support a "native" ministry. If the Church in Burma is to become truly self-supporting, Holy Cross Theological College will need a great deal of support and every effort should be made to enable the Burmese and Karen Clergy to give the best educa­tion possible to their children, so that they in turn may take the place of their parents as clergy, doctors, teachers and nurses in the various institutions of the diocese.

RECONSTRUCTION FUND. Up to date, this fund has realised £1,171 6s. 2d. The greater parJ

of this has been invested in Defence Bonds. These, however, have now been cashed and Jhe whole of the sum is being forwarded Jo Rangoon.

Details of the subscriptions will be found in the lists at the end of this issue or in similar lists published in the Reports for 1944 and 1945. The application of the sums to the various purposes for which they have been earmarked is the responsibility of the Diocesan authori­ties in Rangoon. It will not be an easy task for them to. carry out the wishes of the subscribers under the present catastrophic conditions, but they may be trusted to do all that is humanly possible.

The sum mentioned above does not include subscriptions that have been paid to S.P.G. or to the Winchester Mission to Mandalay, or sent direct to Rangoon for reconstruction purposes. It is the amount subscribed through our Associatio". and passed through the R.D.A. Accounts.

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S.P,C,K, At the request of the Diocese, S.P.C.K. agreed to open a religious

and education bookshop in Rangoon and the Burma Educational Book· shop commenced business in St. John's College, St. John's Road, Rangoon, last summer under the management of Mr. Lockett, who is very well known in Burma. Already the bookshop is well-established, having been appointed bookseller to the University of Rangoon and is serving both Church and State. Previously the British Council had tried to get English books into Burma but without much success, and it is left to the S.P.C.K., through its Rangoon bookshop, to meet this need. The Society's policy is to influence the supply of English books and to make Christian literature available to the people.

BIBLE SOCIETY. The Rev. Harold Willans has written a most interesting and vivid

report of his work during the first year of his return to Burma. The Bible House, he says, is occupied by squatters and is in a ruinous condition. The stock of Scriptures. was looted during the war and many of them were used as waste paper. Mr. Willans has been able io buy back some of the Bibles from Mohammedan traders at fairly reasonable prices. One of the problems with which he has had to deal was distribution. This has been made difficult owing to the lack of communications. The Bishop, says Mr. Willans, has been a great help in this respect as he always takes a supply of Scriptures with him when he goes on tour. The report states that politics is taking the place of Buddhism in the lives of the Burmese people. There are far fewer Buddhist monks to be seen. Where there were hundreds wearing the yellow robe before the Japanese invasion, now there are only tens. Nominally Burma is Buddhist still, but Buddhist ideals and beliefs count less than in previous years.

It is hoped to make arrangements in the future for the S.P.C.K. Bookshop to be housed in part of the Bible House.

RESICNATION OF THE HON. SECRETARY. The present honorary secretary of the Association, who took over

from the Rev. P. H. Cooke on January 1 st, 1930, is resigning at the end of the current year. At the annual meeting a successor will be appointed to take office from January lst, 1948. Mr. Cooke was secretary for thirty years. He succeeded the first secretary, Colonel Spearman, who held office from the inception of the Association in 1895 till January lst, 1900.

MISSION TO THE BLIND OF BURMA. Home Organisation.

(By the REV. E. C. TURNER). As mentioned in the last annual repOrt, Saya Luke Po Kai, head­

master from 1933, is now superintendent of the mission. Miss E. M. Linstead returned to Burma early in 1946, and is treasurer of the

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mission, this no doubt being one only among many other respons.j. bilities. The Rev. E. C. Turner regretfully reached a decision not to return to Burma when his leave expired later in the year.

Sayama Kitty is responsible for schooling, her pupils including sighted children of the blind and of teachers, as well as the few blind girls and eight blind boys assembled at Kemmendine. They meet in the church, as the school buildings are likely to be occupied by the Police well on into 1948. Conditions are far too bad, trains and buses too few, Dacoits ioo numerous, to make journeying to find blind pupils possible, or to encourage parents to let their children brave these hazards ; tracing old pupils and finding new has not beeo attempted during the year.

The workshops appear to have been a hive of activity: a few looms have been obtained and set up for the blind women ; cane has been obtainable and coolie basket sales (at astonishingly inflated prices) amounted to some £700 during 1946. Valentine Mark, former fore­man, who visited England with Fr. Jackson, is alas, reported ill with tuberculosis ; two partially sighted men, Andrew Ba Sein and Gregory Kyaw Ohn, both sound and sensible men, being in his place. Cyril Tun Yin, trained at Holy Cross College, has returned to work as catechist among the blind. .

Conflicting reports about funds reach us, so it is not certain whether the endowment fund is actually accessible yet ; in any case, at present prices the income from it will go a pathetically short way towards meeting day to day needs. Funds have been received from local appeals, but of course nothing like pre-war " Pansy" days.

The Rev. Luke Po Kun was priest-in-charge at St. Michael's al the beginning of the year ; later he was appointed to one of the three archdeaconries. An account of Michaelmastide doings from the Rev. G. Appleton told of the fervour with which the Eucharist was sung with some of Fr. Jackson's hymns. "the singing being better than I ever remember since Apaygyi was here."

To sum up the year. it seems that no more has been done than to work with the blind children and adults who in their three groups never dispersed home during the Jap occupation. While school accommodation is denied, travelling dangerous, and funds scarce in the extreme, a more adventurous policy was impossible, and Saya Luke Po Kai has tried hard to surmount the inevitable discouragements and guide the mission's activities wisely within the limits practicable up till now.

The home organisation of the M.B.B. has been reconstituted with the Rev. E. C. Turner as Hon. Secretary and Mr. J. H. C. Burbridge as treasurer. It is now affiliated to S.P.G. The funds collected in England are used for two purposes: to purchase equipment, apparatus and material for the blind workers in Burma. This is recoverable from the funds in Burma. And to provide that the work be main· tained on a Christian basis and as far as possible on the Catholic lines initiated by Father Jackson.

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REPORT FROM RANCOON.

(By the VEN. OoNALD MoxoN). (Abbreviated).

All Government Chaplains will cease as such by April lst, 1948, and they will receive no further pay after that date. This will only affect three chaplains, viz., the Ven. D. Moxon, the Rev. R. H. L. Slater and the Rev. A. F. Morton, but the stations of Maymyo, Mandalay, Rangoon Cantonments, and Rangoon Cathedral, will then be without chaplains whose salaries were paid by Government. If the Diocese wishes to maintain European chaplains. in the above-named places, it will have to find approximately Rs. 30,000 per annum.

This task is certainly beyond the resources of the Diocese, and I suggest that a sub-committee of business men be asked to investigate ways and means of raising at least a part of this sum and to report 011 the future financial situation of the Diocese.

Jn the budget for 1947, large sums of money have been set aside for the following purposes:-

Reconstruction: For the rebuilding of war-wrecked churches, schools, hospitals, parsonages, about Rs. 50,000.

For the paying of school-teachers' arrears of salaries up to the end of March, 1942, Rs. 40,000.

Publications: There is almost a complete lack of prayer-books and hymn-books, as the Japanese confiscated all Christian books. The Burmese and Karen prayer and hymn-books will, therefore, have to be reprinted, and the publication sub-committee have asked S.P.C.K. to reprint the former from photos of a clean copy taken home by the Rev. G. Appleton. They are investigating the possibility of a joint hymn-book with the Methodist Church of Burma.

Payment of indigenous clergy: DU.ring the Japanese occupation, lhe indigenous clergy suffered great hardship from not receiving any salary. Many of them were forced to becoqte part-time traders or farmers. For the future, whilst maintaining the spirit of self-support and developing the spirit of independence, it was considered desirable that all the clergy should receive similar treatment, whether their parishioners Were well-to-do or otherwise, and know exactly how much salary they should expect. We have, therefore, put in force a scheme for regular payment of our indigenous clergy as from January, 1947. The committee considers that contributions in kind should be made by his parishioners as part payment of the priest's salary. It does not deprecate a priest in his spare time being a small farm-holder. On the contrary, every priest should seek such opportunities of identifying himself with the interests of the people. Nevertheless, his priestly duties must ever come first.

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THE HARD TASK OF THE BISHOP OF RANGOON.

(By the RIGHT REV. BISHOP FYFFE).

No very definite news of plans for the future have yet reached us from Burma. This is probably inevitable until political conditions become more stable than they are at present and we can tell to some extent in what circumstances the work of the Diocese will have to be carried on. Meantime, we can be thankful for the friendliness and reasonableness shown at the conference of the British Government with the Delegation from Burma, led by U Aung San, and we are glad to see that the same atmosphere prevailed at the more recent meeting between the Burmese and representatives of· hill tribes at Panglong. It is a good augury for the future that reasonable and able men like U Aung San and U Tin Tut should command the support of the majority of the Burmese, and we hope they will continue to do so.

They have a difficult task. Apart from foreign policy (which will now include relations with ourselves) they have to arrange all the machinery of government, including the imposition and collection of taxes for its maintenance. They have to establish relations with banks and railways and great companies of a11 sorts which have brought the wealth of Burma to the market. Most of all they have to carry on a real war with the cruel and unscrupulous and well.-armed bands of Dacoits that infest the country and make it dangerous for all travelling about it" on their lawful occasions." It was Burmese Dacoits and the like (not Japanese) who nearly killed Mr. Turner and did kill Ma Pwa Sein and her fellow .. teachers. It. took years and cost many British lives to hunt down similar bands after the annexation of upper Burma, and until they are destroyed or rendered impotent, Burma must remain a dangerous country. Will the new government be firm enough and energetic enough to quash this evil? On the answer depends the safety from violence of those who carry the gospel to the villages and teach in the village schools.

The new government will also have to determine its attitude to mission schools. These schools have provided a very large part of the education of the .country in the past, and it would be interesting to know how many of those who form the new government have been educated in them. Our own St. John's College could probably claim a fair proportion. Will the new government be wise enough to help and encourage these schools? On the answer to that question depends the number of teachers, both British and indigenous, that the Diocese can employ. For the present our four large schools for Burmese and Anglo-Burmese in Rangoon are cut down to two-one for boys and one for girls. Our other news of schools is the brave and self­sacrificing way in which the teachers who remained in Burma during the invasion have carried on or re-opened their schools. Here is another good cause for thankfulness.

Accounts of Christmas Services in the Cathedral show that it was really crowded for all of them-midnight, 7.30 a.m., 9 a.m. and 10.30. This seems to show that a second English-speaking Church is needed in Rangoon. The old cantonment Church is gone, but St. Philip's still stands, though it is rather dilapidated. It was horribly desecrated by the Japanese and since the reconquest has been used to store govern­ment paper. It is a fine building and, now that a number of Anglo­Burmese families are returning from India, we hope it may be possible to reopen it for worship. We surmise that the difficulty is to allot one of the reduced number of English-speaking clergy to that work that grew to such importance under Richard Courtenay and others.

What the Church has to do in the new Burma is to fulfil the role the Master set for His Church in the world-to be the leaven in the Joaf or the salt in the dish. That means first, we suppose, the building up of the indigenous Church. A good step forward in that direction was taken by the appointment of Rev. J. Aung Hla, Rev. J. Hla Gyaw and Rev. L. Po Kun as ArchdeaCi'.ons for Mandalay, Toungoo and the Delta districts respectively. This gives recognised responsibility to clergy who had shown themselves worthy of it. This corresponds, too, with the large increase in the number of Karen and Burmese clergy. formerly there were some thirty British Clergy in the Diocese and under ten Burmese and Karen Clergy. Now the position is almost exactly reversed. What is needed for these Burmese, Anglo-Burmese, and Karen Clergy-in addition to their spiritual development-is a constantly rising standard of educ<!-tion, so that they may be able to n:ieet the members of other .. learned professions" on equal terms. Holy Cross College, close to the University, should help towards this.

But it is only compiratively few of the boys in our schools that can be absorbed into the sacred Ministry. The aim of our schools must be to send out Christian men and women who can take an inHuential part in politics, business, the law and especially in the medical and teaching professions. We hope the Diocese will have medical and teaching work of its own which will employ a good number of the Christian doctors and nurses and teachers we turn out. But, apart from these, we can render great serVice to the new Burma by sending into every branch of its life men and women who will exhibit in their daily conduct the great Christian virtues, unselfishness, energy, integrity and the rest.

Such is the hard task the Bishop and his few helpers have to face. At present there are only two English ladies at work for the Diocese in Burma as compared with nearly thirty in old days. How difficult it must be to place these small forces to the greatest advantage! How greatly he needs our prayers and all the help we can give him! But though we have but the five loaves and the two fishes to offer, in the Master's hands they can be sufficient and even abundant to feed the multitude.

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FRIENDS OF RANGOON CATHEDRAL. (By MR. J. l'A. CARTWRIGHT).

The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Rangoon, came to life again on 27th July, 1945, when it was reconciled and cleansed in the presence of the Bishop and a great congregation. The Cathedral had for many years prior to 1942 been the focal point of the Church in Burma. With the liberation of Burma's capital in 1945 it was to rise to a greater glory and to be known to thousands of service men and women whose service to their country took them to Burma. Those stationed in Rangoon worshipped there week by week, many playing an active part as servers, choristers, members of the Cathedral Council, etc. An even greater multitude were those who passed through Rangoon, either going on leave to India or on release to the United Kingdom, and paused to worship with the " inhabitants " of the capital.

With the aim of keeping alive the interest and support of those who have come to know the Cathedral during the past two years and keeping informed of the work of restoration those who knew the Cathedral as it was prior to 1942, the Friends of Rangoon Cathedral were formed in July, 1946. A Quarterly Paper is being issued ; the first number appeared in September, 1946. At the end of the year the membership was 34-a small total-but it is hoped to increase this number through notices in various Ch~rch publications, including magazine insets. It is difficult to reach the many who knew the Cathedral after its restoration, and it is hoped that anyone who knows of an ex-Service man or women who served in Burma will bring to notice the existence of the Friends of Rangoon Cathedral. Full parti· culars may be obtained from Mr. J. l'A. Cartwright, Avondale, 34b, Mornington Road, Chingford, London, E.4.

THE BURMESE LEADERS IN LONDON. (By the REV. G. A. APPLETON).

The recent Burma Talks took place in an atmosphere of great friendliness, although tremendous excitement had been worked up in Burma, where organised demonstrations and strikes had led to a good deal of dislocation and considerable anxiety. The Prime Minister's unequivocal statement that it was for Burma to decide whether she wished to stay within or go outside the Commonwealth did much to allay the suspicions of political leaders and to convince them of Britain's sincerity. The Burmese leaders were also gratified that the Conference took place at Cabinet level and that the Prime Minister took the chair at the meetings.

The amount of agreement reached and the decisions made can be regarded as very satisfactory. The elections to be held in early April are to be for a Constituent Assembly, that is, for a body which will decide the future constitution of the country and the future relationship

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with Britain. Only Burma Nationals will be eligible to vote and to stand as candidates in this election, and this will mean that British and Indian representatives will have no say in deciding the future consti­tution, an arrangement with which few people will quarrel.

The most difficult matter before the Conference was the question of the Frontier Areas, the hill areas inhabited mainly by Shans, Kachins, Chins and some Karens, which up to the present have been under the direct control of the Governor. These people would generally prefer to remain under the British, as would also the Karens, the great majority of whom live in political Burma inextricably mingled with the Burmese. A separate state or states has been suggested, but this would have great difficulties, for it would be landlocked and dependeni for its communications and trade on political Burma. Also, the Bur­mese would be natura11y uneasy at having their land frontiers under separate control. The Conference decided that a Committee of enquiry should be set up at once, consisting of equal numbers from Ministerial Burma and from the Hill Areas, to advise as to the best method of associating the Frontier peoples with the working out of the new Constitution. The British Government has stood by its pledge that the Hill peoples shall not be forced into a Burma Constitution against their will, while U Aung San has repeated his assurance that they shall be free to choose.

Our sympathy will be very much with the Karen,, who are the outstanding Christian community in Burma, both in numbers and quality. They are distinctly uneasy about their future, as their recent unofficial delegation has made clear. But just because they. are largely a Christian community we can expect them to tackle this problem with vision and courage, seeking in it God's purpose both for them­selves and for the whole of Burma.

The London Conference agreed on wider powers for the interim government, accepting the principle of financial autonomy. This was a generous gesture on the part of Britain, for at present Burma is financing most of her reconstruction and some of her current expendi­ture from a loan of £87 millions from this Country. This loan is interest-free and there is a hint in. the Command Paper that part of it at any rate may be converted into an outright grant. Many people hope that this will be done, for when Burma was invaded in 1941, Britain was responsible for defence, but ,Jteing hard-pressed elseWhere was unable to beat off the Japanese.

It will have been noticed that two members of the Burma Delega­tion did not sign the report, U Saw and Thakin Ba Sein. There is no doubt that this action of theirs was dictated by party politics. It is a pity that party politics are allowed to enter into such a serious matter as the future of Burma, but U Saw and Thakin Ba Sein can hardly be blamed when Mr. Churchill is equally guilty. The interesting thing is that both these politicians evidently feel that ihey are strong

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enough to challenge the dominating position of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. The April election will show how far their confidence is justified.

COLLECE OF HOLY CROSS.

(By the REV. G. A. APPLETON).

The College of Holy Cross reopened in early October under Canon Garrad as Warden, with three theological students. Two of them were deacons, Peter Ba Maw and William Movin, both preparing for their ordination to the priesthood. The third student was Hwoi To a Sino-Burman who had been living at Holy Cross before the Japanes; invasion and attending the University as a day student. He comes from the Kappali district. ·

Canon Garrad is responsible for most of the te11ching, but is being assisted by regular weekly lectures from Miss Chapman and Canon Wilson.

Also living in the College are a dozen or more Christian students who are attending the University which reopened in September. Most of these cannot afford the high boarding fees in the University and so are living on a more frugal basis at· Holy Cross. In spite of recent improvement, the cost of living in Rangoon is still over three times as much as it was in 1941. -

The Holy Cross buildings escaped almost undamaged from the invasion, but every stick of furniture was looted. However, the Army Chaplains' Department got it into good working order during the year in which they used it as a retreat house and training centre.

Sunday services have been held regularly in Holy Cross Church since January, 1945, with a small but Jively congregation, most of whom are pre-war faithfuls. The Church Committee have taken in hand the task of refurnishing the church in a worthy way; two generous gifts of £75 and £25 have made an immediate start possible.

On the Sunday before I left we had the first adult baptism since our return. The new Christian was Ko ,.E, the warden of the Home for Waifs and Strays, which is in· the .,next compound. Before the invasion he had come into friendly contact with staff and students and had felt quite drawn towards the Christian religion. With the invasion he was attached to Army H.Q. as a messenger, went through the whole campaign and finally was evacuated with the Army to India. There he became a clerk with the Burma Army at Hoshiarpur, and it was there that I came into touch with him again. Preparation for baptism was begun, and continued mainly by post, for he was often on the move. Ko E served through the Liberatio_n Campaign and was demobilised in April last, when he rejoined Mr. and Mrs. Luce in their work for the Waifs and Strays and juvenile offenders. All through, he persisted in his intention of becoming a Christian, though

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some of his friends had warned him that his prospects would be better if he remained a Buddhist. His baptism took place· on November JOth, when a happy gathering of Burmese, Karen and British Chris­tians welcomed him into Christ's family.

RECENT BOOKS ON BURMA.

(I) Forgotten Frontier, by Geoffrey Tyson (Targett & Co., Cal­cutta), 8/-.

This is the story of one of the great pilgrimages of history: the evacuation of several hundred thousand refugees from Burma in the Spring and Summer of 1942. It contains wonderful illustrations of elephants crossing flooded streams, etc.

(2) British Rule in Burma, by G. E. Harvey (Faber & Faber, 10/6). This is really the second volume of a History of Burma, bringing

up-to-date the story told of the pre-British period in Mr. Harvey's well­known earlier book o·n the subject. Some of Mr. Harvey's friends may have missed this publication because it was reviewed in the Clw;·ch Times under an incorrect title. The book is shrewd and far­~eeing, friendly ~nd fair. but not uncritical either of Burman or Briton. The story of the failure of the Government scheme to help the Burmese agriculturist by establishing Co-operative Societies, makes depressing reading.

The benevolence of the Government only increased the irre­sponsibility of the cultivator, who gaily contracted debts when he knew the government would accept liability for them. It is to be hoped that the hard lesson has been learnt, that you cannot have co-operation without co-operators. It is the sort of lesson which the New Burma must learn, or perish.

IN MEMORIAM. Charles Randolph Puner.

My brother, "Rand," came out to me as a layman in 1906, just after I had taken over charge of St. Michael's, Kemendine, from Mr. Whitehead. Rand had been a school teacher in England and he at once set himself to develop the educational side of the missi9n. His influence made itself felt from the very beginning. His was a magnetic personality. The staff of the school was at once infected by his enthusiasm and optimism. The number of pupils was soon doubled and the Christian parents from the jungle villages came begging for their children, to come as boarders.

As there was no other accommodation except the small wooden bungalow in which we both lived, these Christian bparders, about forty in number, had to share our bedroom and dining room, lying in rows on the floor. We had to step over their sleeping forms to get into our own beds. .

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In 1908 Rand returned to England to be prepared for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge. The ·sort of influence he exercised there is indicated by the fact that he was known familiarly to his fel_low students as "Burma," and one .of them, Allan Blencowe, came out shortly after Rand's return in 1910, to help us in our work.

There were two movements taking place in our district at that time. The one amongst the Pwo Karens in the Delta, and the other amongst the followers of the Yathe in Tharrawaddy. Rand threw himself with characteristic zest into these two movements. Through. out the rainy season and hot weather he traversed the Delta in a sampan or canoe with a dozen or more .Karen teachers and children sharing their food and sleeping on the floor, regardless of mosquito; and cholera. In one cholera-infected village he nursed one of the boys after the villagers had fled, and took him back to Kemendine. That boy, David Sein Pu, is now a priest. On another occasion, putting on his boots in the morning. his foot was terribly stung by a scorpion which was lurking there.

With the followers of the Yathe he was equally successful. He in his yellow cassock, and the Yathe in his ye11ow robe, toured the country side by side and were known as the white and black hermits. Many of the hermits' followers became Christian and one, Luke Po Kai, is now headmaster of the Mission to the Blind.

During the first World War many of our best Karen Christians joined the Burma Rifles and were sent to India. Rand thought it was his duty to follow them up and was given a commission in the Army, which took him away from the mission from 1917-1919.

After the war my brother took up once more the work he had left, and spent the whole of his time in incessant touring. He lived the hard life of a Karen peasant and shared all the hazards and hardships of jungle life.

In 1924 he married Margaret Hackney, herself a missionary and the daughter of one of the pioneer priests in the Karen Mission at Toungoo. He was then stationed at Prome and was in charge of the Chin Mission,.

In 1927 he left Burma and held successively benefices at Darton, Somerford Keynes and Christ Church, Gloucester.

Four years ago my brother had to undergo a major operation. This was for a time successful, largely owing to the devoted attention he received from one of his old parishioners from Kemendine, Dr. Tom Barnabas, who had settled in England as a medic~! practitioner. The trouble returned, however, in the Spring of 1946, and he died on August 31st. He left behind four children, still in statu pupillari, and ill provided for .

. The memory of Saya Pasha Galay, as the Burmese and Karens called him, will be long cherished in the Delta and Prome districts,

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and many of the best clergy and teachers in the Church of Burma will look back to his ministry as, under God, the source and inspiration of their own.

W.C.B.P. Miss Crace Watson.

On December 21st, 1946, Miss Grace Watson passed to her well~ deserved rest in Paradise. She was one of a family of twelve sisters, six of whom are still living ; the one brother died as the result of an accident at the age of 20. The family was able to live in comfori, the last united home being at Brockenhurst in the New Forest country. Miss Watson always carried with her that unfailing courtesy which is characteristic of such families as she came from. Her simple Christian faith led her to offer for humble missionary service a life that might have been spent at ease in England. She paid all her own expenses and, when she had to return to England because of failing health. she supported a: missionary who could carry. on her evangelistic work in the villages of upper Burma. She came to Burma in 1909, joining the little band of women workers at Mandalay headed by Miss Patch. But the work to which she felt called, and for which she was best fitted. was direct evangelism, and she spent her time touring among villages where there seemed to be an opening for such work, especia11y in the country north of Shwebo. She plunged into her work with a gusto all her own. She was constitutionally strong, and no difficulty of travel or opposition could stop her. She cared not how she fed or slept, and all she did was done not merely good humouredly, but in a perpetual ripple of merriment which was only stimulated by the difficulties, and even disasters, to be faced. She had to leave Burma finally in 1929 and lived very quietly for some time at St. Leonards, and finally at Sidmouth, where her body was laid to rest in the cemetery, Winslade Road.

We do. not know on what sort of ground the seed she sowed so diligently and selflessly may have fallen, but we do not doubt that (though the "weeping " must be omitted in her case) the promise of the Psalm is fulfilled for her: " He that now goeth on his way and heareth forth good seed shall doubtless come again and bring his sheaves with him."

R.S.F. Ceorge Gabriel Compton.

Died February 15th, 1947. A great friend and supporter of the Church in Burma. Philip Henry Kirkha,111 (Priest).

Died November 30th; 1946. For seven years Missionary to the Karens at Toungoo. Florence Ada Petley.

Died November lst, 1946. Formerly of Toungoo. For many years a generous benefactor of Rangoon Diocese.

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RANGOON DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION

Balance Sheet, 1946.

Reaeipte. £ s. d.

0f:~~!fst~~J~~le- 3 9 R.H.A. ... ... ... . .. Z59 9

lle~O~Rt~~:~~P~~~=ci:iptiOii i~ 1~

Sa.le of Mrs. Fyffe's curios at Annual Meeting ... ... 7 13 6

Pension advances recoverecl 662 10 0 Defence Bonds Ca.shell 1007 'l 11 Interest-Defence nondR

CR.D.A. Fund) ... ... 10 lO O (Reconst.1•uction Fuml) 26 4 5

Expenditure.

Pensions ... ... . .. Secretary's Po&ta.ge

gxpenees ... Sta.t1onery, etc .. Cables nurma. Calling, etc .. J>rinting ...

£ • d a.ri<i206 sG

",, 1111 . ,,

J,a.ntern Slides ... ... .

29 OD 14 Bta 31Ba 2 ,, 3 ,,

Ca.rrilLl!'e of Records, etc. A1lvertisements ... ... . .. PoBta.i.te of "Burma Calling"

and "Burma. New!'!" ... Cheque Book, etc.

~~~~m°a.a.8tew,i ,,··

Ra.la.nce-R.D.A. ... . .. Ha.la.nee-Reconstruction

Fnnd

1211 o 4 I

... 2 96

... 29 oo 198':194

... 163103

Z4'l41910

= lnv11t1r1nt1.

~ ~

Defence HondR £ 8. d.

350 0 0

Audited and found correcl with Rank Ba.la.nee. Ja.nua.ry 20th, 1947. H. J. ORBJ.iN.

RANGOON DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION

LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 1946. BATH AND WELLS,

Miss I. Wilson ... . .. St. Andrew'11, 'l'a.unton Mrs. Cuthbert "A Friend" ... ... . .. Rev. C. E. Ga.rrad a.nd Mrs.

Ga.rad Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Rev. Mrs. . .......... . Miss Lytba.l's Sa.le of Work Miss Little ... . .. Mrs. Ma.rjorie La.dds

(Gloucestershire Regiment) )frs. Lyon

BRADFORD,

Rev. W. R. Menzies ...

BRISTOL,

Miss L. Palmer (for Ma. Pwa.

£ e. d. '6

10 0 1 0 0

11 6 3

2 4 6 1 0 0

• 0 '0

10 0 Z 6

85 0 0 Z 6

10 1 0

£ s. d. 1 0 0

£ e. cl.

Sein Memoria.)) ... ... 2 2 0"

il~~w.nt. 1f:!;~ng ?,~lie~~ 2f f r 16

CANTERBURY.

CARLISLE,

Rev. P. H.· Kirkha.m ...

:::: !:~~~iJ~tf~~~H) :·:

£ s. (\. 2 0 0

5 0 110 0

150 5 0

5 0 0'

£ t'I, d. 100 1 ,, 1 ,,

·CHESTER AND LIVERPOOL, £ 1~· fi

Rt. . Bishop ... Tubbs l; 1; r

Mr. G. Milne ... ... ... 6 8

n:01;°- tro:rankla.nd (for 35 ,' 'o· ,T.H.

CHICHESTER.

~ra~~r:~ : ...... r:ef•P~ertril. E'iehOP R~tr:nd Mi·11. A: mfWorlii

ELY,

St.. T,nke's, Chntert.on

IXETER,

GLOUCESTER,

~~:.sR}\'_Mo. 3Jt~Vi1'aer GUILDFORD,

The ViHH Nh:

Jl:vvfmo~&~h~ .nd 1,.C: Rev. P. B. Cooke T,a.us Deo

lfi~:C1>rak·e·

LEICESTER.

m. T.eon&rl18 (for Saw B1eh Htool

LICHflELD,

Pf'r M ri.. Adam11

LONDON.

Mn. Pellt Mi1111 Rtilema.n

NEWCASTLE,

Rev. W. F.. R iclr.s Vrtt. Weet

£ •• d. 1 •••

12 0 •• 314 I O

I, d. I O

3 • I 7 5 0 0 I I O so o•

If O

£ •. ll. . '. 1010 0

£ I. d. 2 4 0 113 6

10 f 5 0

l O O 10 0 0

7 •

£ .. d .

I 6 4

£ "· d. 3 ••

•. d. I O 5 0

£ II. d. ISO 2 0 0

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NORWICH,

t~~·r.a.g. Bmiiii 11iaa P. E. .En.na Miu P. Stokes 111111 L. Noble ... Rev. f.1. H. Wilson Mi1111 J..on,:sdon Mi1111 Berrima.n

~:!b!~ wP.Ji?.'th Rev. and Mra. W. if. r:.'"

J ohnson ... ... .. . Per Rev. W. H. C. ,Jol1nB011

PETERBOROUGH,

£ •. ll. 3 12 O

SO 7 • 3 . SO

I O O 10 0 Z O 5 0

216 1

2S o o• 1 • o·

(Not included in the &udit).

M i111, V. Lidbetter

~\::r~:i,ley Kl•• Hinton ... 11ra. Ca.rpenter Anon. ... Mi11 L. Wills ... 11111 K. Lidbetter ... Loe1 Weedon Church

Collections

RIPON .

S t. Andrew·,., St.a.rheck Ditto

ROCHESTIR,

£ e. d. 5. 2 6 0

Z 6 13' 5 3 4 I '. '6

5 6 8

£ L 11. z o o•

10 0

£ •. d. 5 0

1014 0

, Kiaa Sout.ter 10 6

:<ea, iaa Pinn-Ketce'.J St. P&ulinus. 8.8. ... • . .. F.W.o., Pa.rieh Church .

Mill Noel K•rn ... Dormaneland Mathen'

Unton

ST. ALBANI,

5 0 I S 7 I O O

11 r I O O

I 1 0

£ A. d. Rev. A. SulJrin ... ... ... 5 0 C~tp~1c Bt.rn_~.t ~~nd~~ 5 5 8 Rev. Rector M:orl'&n 2 2 o•

ST, EDMONIIURY AND IPSWICH.

lfiu Gt.rrad

SALISBURY,

~~ifd!1~k~i~l~an :.. ... St. M•rk's, Sa.Uabury, Mi•·

aionuy A1111oci&tion ... M:r11. Trotma.n ...

Jfe~~\~7' Trotin&n ::: Rev. W. E. Ha.rdcutle

£ 8, <1. '6

£ &. d. I O O 4 910•

I 4 0 3 0 ••

1f O I 3 6 , or

SOUTHWARK,

:~~~ r.·H~'lf:~t1ey ::: Mr. G. E. Scott ... . ..

SOUTHWELL,

MiAA A. W. Severn ... lfiR11 M. F.. Rohi1111on ...

TRURO,

Rev. U. fl. Atwool Mi11R ]'a.tell

WAKEFIELD.

Bta.inclitre S.S •... Kirkburton P.C.fl. Anon. .

£ 8. d. 2 2 0

... 1 2 0 3 0 0

.£' II. d. 5 • 5.

.£ s.tl. 15 0 0 10 o o•

£·a. d. 3 3 o 110 0 I O O

Worg:"n°J><~ia:CBcroa.di)ent : .. Holmftrth P.C.0.

15 O 5.

2 0 0 I I O Holm bridge

WINCHESTER.

WORCESTER.

St. Peter'e Boys' S.S., per £ a. d.

11f8e Ios!:1fM&" Pwii." Seiii 4 13 z

Memoria.1) 1 o r

YORK •

Mi11i:1 Humner £ R.cl.

10 o·

GENERAL SECRETARY.

Marlborough ... ... . ..

fl:~o!e.~iieomb .. Meffiori;i Scholar ... ... .

"In Memoria.m," G.H.S. Ca.non J. A. Ha.rding Miee Purry ... MiH Mina. Sha.w MieA Mina. Sha.w

£ e. ii. 5' 5'

614 0 2 ,, 1 •• , , I O O 2100'

3614 5

3 30

Amy tiYke \inc1U: 2 2 o

mg 13!1. Od. from St. Ma.rk'11, Athlone. C.P. South A fric& . 22 15 6'

MISS ATWOOL,

Misi:. Atwool £ e. d.

5416 6

• The &!lteriak aga.inst a.ny contribution mea.na tha.t it is ea.rmo.rked for the "Burma. Church .Reconstruction Fund."

MISSION TO THE BLIND OF BURMA

Statement of Accounts for 1946.

lnoome. £ "· d. brought forwa.rd,

Ja.nua.ry 29th, 1947.

... 901 6 3

... 3117 9

... 20 11 3 5 14 6

... 4 10 0

... 20 18 1

£984 17 10 =

18

Expenditure. . £ a. d.

EQuipment sent to Burma. 20 18 l Custom Dutiea ... ... ... 4 O o Petty Ca.ah (including coat

of •·Jotting•") ... ... 12 18 9 Ra.la.nee to 1947 . . .. 947 1 0

£9841710

= J.H.G.B.

BURMA RECONSTRUCTION FUND Per Mrs. D. Atwool.

'fhe M.isaea St.one Miss M. Rootba.m )liSB A. F. Sa.lt ... ... . .. Hurme. Bees of St. Nicholae,

Colwa.U ··· ··· ···

Ii .. ,r st~~~~ooiie 1fi8s M. Bellwood .. Mrs. 1''reda. Palmer Anonymous ··· Re\'. ,r. R. Stevens Mrs.

£ 8, d. 7 6

110 0 10 6

1 7 1 0 1 1

10

' 10

' ' 2 Miss Mr11. :Miss

10

' ' 10

33 11 0 MiH C. Grett.on (Hospita.l

Reconstruction) 10 O Mrs.

I O Miss Dore ... Miss Hughea

N!i8~ C~m~:de per··· Mrs. . ··~·ft'tl ' 7

RANCOON DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION. Per M i11 D. Atwool.

£ s. d. Miss N. A. Ta.it ... ... ... 1 0 0 Rev. H. Ha.eking ... ... 1 1 0

Crt~leW~f!~tle~'.. pe~· .. Mi~-~ 1 1 0 M.rs. Ca.rroll ... ... 5 0 O MisA M'. A. Brown ... ... 1 0 0 .Miss M.. A. Brown (dona.l..ion) 10 0

£9 lZ O

MACAZINES £ s. tl.

Per Mrs. cameron-Mre. Gnnt Nicoll ... 2 6 :Mrs. •r. O. Fowler ... 2 o Mrs. A. M. Cameron 2 0

,.,. Mrs. Allder 10 O PerMra.Cam ...... 176 Per Mill D, Atwool ... B 19 6

£11 3 6

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£34 I O ~

l<'el:J.

AIJr,

June

,July

Sept. Oct.

NO\'.

Hee.

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

A1Jr.

Mo.y

,lune

,July Aug.

8eJ)L. Oct.

Dec.

RANCOON MISSION ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR 1946 Additional Statement IJl,IPPlied by S.P.C.

Weston, j:· w.:··J~sq:·· (CoiY. a.i°°Kok1"11c) "fi944)'" 12&. 'ld., Loca.1 Loans, Buxton '!'rust. ... ... . ..

. -Swinnerton-Weston, J. W. Bsq;, for Holy

~kJ~eA.(1~~) ... ... ... ... ... . .. cent. Conversion Stock 0/a Hole ror

per-~eut:·LociL:i Lo&i1~ (ifoxtc)~-, 'l'riii.t) :··

Div: S.P.G Do. ... ... ... . .. 'l'hurefield, Rev. G. A (Ox.) ... ... ... ... ... . ..

Div. on .£64 1Se. Sd. 311 per cent. Conversion Stock 0/a. Hole · , on £1,403 12A. ?d. Loca.l Loans Ola. Buxton ... ... . ..

12s. 'lei. Local Loans at 100 37/64th111 0/a. Buxton . W.R. (St. JoMs.) .............. . 6s. 4d. 3; per cent. War Stock, P.O. 0/a. Cunnini.;-ham Rev. R. S. ·-H.etul'ned 'l'a.x Gov. Subn .. ,v. U.-Do. ... ... ... ... ... ... 1-Westo11. ,l., l•;i,;q.-Do. fol' J(okine (19'15)

Ue,·. U, A. 1:.-llo .

4f7 ii~ ~I 1i : 11 80

16' 11,

1010 6 . ,, '' 10106

3 '. 22 410 11, 1 I B

1010 6 1411 5U

2 1, ,, 910 0 117 0

11 80 16 0

Ba.lance, list Ja.uuary, 1947 .. £12318 0 = Far East Relief (Burma) for the year 1946. Dulhie, M.ies ,T. 10 Morris, Mrs. D. S. ... .. 10 O Dm-a.l. P. K Esq. (I.on.) 12

1122 U.a.msa.y, Mrs. L. I•'. 11 0 Golden Green (I.,011.) .. 10 0

1 1 0 Anon. (Pet.) 2 6 Do. ('l'ru.) 3 3 0

3 5 6 Achisou, It. R .. fol' traiui111,;" priest11 150 '0 Horneey (Lon.)

"(Pet} 1 ' 0

Northampton School 10 0 110 0

Scott. Miss M. (Sal.l (No1::)

30 0 0 Finch. Rlw. G. K 0. 10 0 0 'l'aclworth (Swk.) 2 0 0

" '0 lhwkford (Vhes.J 2013 7

2013'1 ]frown, It. It. (l~x.) 5 5 0 Anon. cOitei;~· 1uOCb.)

1 ' 0 Bromley 210 0

310 0 Chestel' Ca.thedra.l

cch'ic.) ... 20 00

Cutbush. Miss M. 5 0 0 l-'elpham (Chic.) 1 1 0

10 ' A. Scarborough. St. James, 5 0 0 Berwick, Holy •rrinity (New) 17 6 1

61 21

£286 14 ~ = S.P.ih ~b:~~Y, 1947. 20

THE WINCHESTER MISSION IN MANDALAY. Report of the Home Base, 1946.

The year 1946 has been one of continued encouragement and support on the "Home Base." Our Bishop has continued to exert his influence in the Diocese of Winchester in many ways. Not only has he sent a further contribution from his Appeal Fund, but has inserted paragraphs about the Mission in the Diocesan Leaflet. and most important of all (although this rightly belongs to 1947), he has called for the special prayers of the Diocese for the Winchester Mission in Mandalay on each Wednesday in the week, in the Diocesan Quarterly Intercession Paper. In this he includes extracts from." Burma News" and " Burma Calling... Both the workers in Burma and friends and supporters at home will be strengthened and uplifted in the knowledge that the Diocese is praying for them week by week in this way.

The news from Burma is not so enheartening. Owing to the uncertainty of Burma's future, and the terribly disiurbed state of the country as the aftermath of war, the immediate resumption of work for which we had hoped, for which there is such tremendous need, and for which we have funds in hand, could not be carried out. Two nursing sisters who went out with the hope of restarting our medical work, were diverted to other duties. Canon Garrad had certainly earned the right to a less strenuous life as a country parson in England, but his enthusiasm and love for Mandalay could not be restritined, and he sailed for Burma in the early summer. But he, too, has been unable to carry on the work at Mandalay which is so near to his heart. He is now doing most valuable work in the training of Ordinands at Holy Cross College, Rangoon, but he still longs for Mandalay, and all the work of Brotherhood, Hospital and Schools. He writes from Rangoon in December, sending his best wishes to all friends of the Mission, and says, "It seems as if there ought to be many things to write to yOu about, but in practice there aren't. Every­where there is Red Tape, miles of it! I have been trying to get on with a new Church for lnsein, but the Government delays in sanction­ing the site. And with medical work it is the same. The idea of the Diocesan Council was that the Hospital should move from Mandalay to Rangoon, and reopen in the Diocesan Girls' School building, which was equipped as a Hospital during the war; but we cannot yet get the consent of Government, who say they will consider whether a building which received a grant in aid from the Education Department can be diverted for use as a hospital, and month after month passes. It seems such a waste of energy ; everyone is ready and anxious to get on with it, and we just can't move. . . . In Mandalay very little can be done, because all our buildings are still held by Government, and we cannot get them back. The country as a whole is still in an awful mess, but it is a good deal better than it was six months ago. The civil unrest is the great problem, and until things are quieter, agriculture and trade are very handicapped, and it is not safe to go anywhere.

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Aung San is doing his best, I think, aod people speak 9f him as a conscientious fellow, but no one can foresee what will happen in the elections next year, and so we drag on."

Taken by itself, the foregoing might be considered rather depress. ing news to us who are looking forward to the privilege of helping in the rebuilding of •he Church in Buruma, and in particular, of our own share in that work, at an early date. But it is not so depressing when we remember those reports telling of the wonderful steadfastness of the Burmese clergy and laity during all the trial and difficulty of the occupation, and of the determination oft.he Church in Burma to go forward in spite .of delays and difficulties. So, although we may chafe at the delay, we can be assured that God has His plan for the part the Winchester Mission is to play in the. new Burma, and that in due time, that plan will be revealed. And so we can go forward in faith and

· trust, building up our material and spiritual forces for the time when they will be called upon.

At home, the CommiHee has been much strengthened by the inclu­sion of several lay, as well as cleric<II, members who have had personal connections with Burma. Already their interest and enthusiasm is bearing valuable fruit. Lady Clementina Tottenham has put Burma on the ·map in the Christchurch Deanery, when she organised a Burma Exhibition and Garden .Party- in her delightful garden at Staple Cro~ in the Summer. We were very lucky in having Dorothy Lewis with us to tell the large assembly about Burma. Afterwards, the beautiful grounds looked like Burma at a Pagoda Festival, with over fifty of the young people of Burton waridering amongst the tree studded lawns in the colourful costumes of the hill tribes, while Burmese men and women visited the Buddhas on the terrace, and a party of Burmese youths made valiant attempts to play "chinlon "-but found soccer easier!

Mr. E. Gibson Fleming has done a most valuable piece of work for the Mission in bringing its needs to the notice of many interested in Burm.a. As a result of the personal letters he has sent to many of his friends and business associates, donations totalling nearly £200 have been received.

While we welcome the help of these new friends, our old friends continue to carry on their devoted work. Miss West, at Andover, the folk at Old Basing, our friends at Compton have organised their annual events for the Mission. Outside the Diocese Mrs: Low organised a Sale of Work at Exton, and friends at Rudgewick, Sussex, did the same. At Wrrecclesham the members of Mrs. Barker's Women's Fellowship are working to support a girl who is training as a nurse iii Burma when the hospital is restai-ted. Miss Willes and Mrs. Cruickshank, in the Winchester Diocese, and Mrs. Jellicoe~ in the Portsmouth Diocese, continue their valuable work in the sadly dwind· ling Guild of Intercession and Work. To these, and all our other

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helpers too numerous to mention, the Committee would like to express the thanks of the Mission.

One further link between Winchester and Rangoon has been forged by the gift of £100 from the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral as a thankott:ering for the preservation of the Cathedral during the air raids. It 1s to be used by the Bishop of Rangoon for some special requirement in the beautifying of Rangoon Cathedral, but we have not yet heard the precise use to which the gift will be put.

The Hon. Secretary has continued to give talks and arrange pageants, etc., as occasion offers, and in addition to efforts for the Mission itself, has been able to assist S.P.G. generally by giving talks on Burma and lending costumes for use at S.P.G. gatherings. ·

The workers and supporters of the Mission in England will, in the words of the Bishop of Winchester, as set out in the Diocesan Intercession paper, •• Pray for the restoration of peace and order in Burma, and for an advance to conditions which make the spread of the Gospel possible. That the long association between the Dioceses of Winchester and Rangoon may be maintained and strengthened, and that the work of rebuilding the medical work in Burma may be pros~ pered, and generous) y supported by the Winchester Diocese."

On behalf of the Committee, GEORGE E. C. KNAPP,

Hon. Organising Secretary.

Since the '' copy " of the Annual Report went to press, news of the passing of several good friends of the Mission has been received. When Grace Watson was obliged, through ill-health, to retire from her work in Mandalay, she resided in the Diocese for some time, and did most valuable work for the Mission in speaking at meetings and at schools about her beloved Burma and its people. Her interest was maintained until the end, and she helped the finances of the Mission very considerably by the gift of a supply of her book, "The Road to Mandalay," to be sold for the funds.

The Rev. A. L. Brown, late Vicar of Wonersh, was Honorary Secretary of the Mission from 1908 until 1924, and he continued to represent the Mission as Hon. Secretary for the Guildford Diocese until 1932, and maintained his interest until his death in March.

Mr. J. S. Findlay was a generous supp·orter of the Mission, and last year signed Covenanted Subscription forms. He was present at the R.D.A. annual meetiitg in 1946, and afterwards wrote expressing his. admiration for the work the Church is doing in Burma. His death removes a real friend of the Mission and the Church in Burma.

I am sure my Committee would wish me to express the deep regret of all its members at the loss of these good friends, and our deep sympathy with their relatives.

G.E.C.K.

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THE WINCHESTER MISSION IN MANDALAY. Annual Statement of Accounts for the Year 1946.

£ •• d

17 3 10

... 530 7 22 1 811

... 36 13 "one 30113

49 9 SO 9 • 1

8812 38 6 513

£11531811 =

'l'o S.P.G. Pa.rt Sa.l&1·ies of .£ ~. d the Winchester Brother-

P&rt 'Sa.Ia.i-i."es ;;r lCO O O

•-f.,,:"-:;.,;-: p ... . .. 161 0 o J>rinti{/~ ; Annua.l it!iii:t:. 4 12

O

St~i:'fonery l\iid Office 'Equip: 1.6 6 6 ment ... ... ... . .. 2711 o

¥~:t~Un:cTo~~~~ Hoii: seC: ; 1i ! T,itera.ture ... ... ... 815 1

~~~~urfe~~l!q~!ui~k· c~: 4 t~ ~ 337'118

T1s~~J~rred··· to Deposit, 'l'ra.nsferretl io·· D0Poei( 88 12 8

Lloyds ... ... .. . .. 650 o o Interest to Deposit A/c.,

11~~~:: tO" DeP'oai( .. P.6: 5 13 2

B!f ~· BaliiiiCe Ciirried for: 38 6 6

wa.rd 33 811

£11531011

Staff Salaries and Hospital Cot Fund, held by S.P.C.

£ a. cl £ "· d Ba.la.nee (S&la.I'ies Fund) ... 762 5 :S 'l'o Medica.l Hisaion Account 84 o o 'Ra.la.nee (Cot Fund) ... . .. 170 15 O Ba.la.nee carried forwa.rd 1198 12 II

~~i~d,~d~ ~C:l~i~ebl-u~r~ .. 26, 1~ ~ £1282 12 11 £1282 12 11 l::::iiiiiiiii: ~=

Reconstruction Fund. (Win1ate Fund).

in P .0. Sa.vinge Ba.nk, 1945 ... . 0. Sa.vinge Ba.nk Account, 1946 in Lloyd1 Ba.nk Ltd., 1945 .

ed to deposit, 1946 ... Interest on deposit, Lloyds, 1946

£ R, d. 1533 12

38 •• 1300 0 0

650 0 0 513 2

£3527 010

Total Assets to Date (excludin1 Investments held by S.P.G,),

Reconstruction Fund ... ... ... . .. ~~~tr #u~~rii~:bn3.~~JY1 s .. :,G·>... ::: ::: Current Account, Lloyds Ba.nk, Winchester

(Note.-These Accounts a.re subject to a.udit).

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£ •. d. 3527 010 10271711 17015 0

33 911

415928

PAROCHIAL CONl RIBUTIONS. Winchester Diocese.

Alton, St. Lawrence

.J::wir;:ldhaui'" ··· £ l!I. d.

... 2 0 0 1 0 0 211 0

•West Worldbam

:tft0B:inlr" ::: ::: ... Basingstoke, St. Michael . Cb1rreh Oakley )la.pleduewen ..

•Ya.teley Highclere

W'!1t~1:i liiiI ..... . Whitchurch Dea.nery

Festiva.l .. . Bri!,mdea.n ... ... . .. Bournemouth, St. Stephen W. Southbourne, All 8a.int1'

GJ~i~~!C8~fl!tt~!t~~11; lr:r~ den Fete) ... . ..

H\•the ... ... . .. nOmAey Deanery Feativa.1

1010 40 0 0 39 6 1 10 10 0 1 8 0 210 0 11 6 112 2 5 0 0 3 3 5

10 0 110 1 9 3 3

13 9 4 31510 3 3 0

£ •. d. 110 8 1 BO 412 6 11, 6 1 5 0

10 0 10 0

' ' 0 11 0 ... 2 2 0 •.. 8 0 0

10 0 0 ... S 5 0

nd Cha.pter ... 100 O O nc ee er Dea.nery U .M.C. 8 5 O

·;:1~~t::t~: It ~~~~s ::: I 1~ I 'fhe Bishop of Winehe1ter's

Appeal (further contri· bution) ,.. . .. 229 o o

£530 ' 4 ~

PAROCHIAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Diooese of Portsmouth,

Alverstoke, St. Y:a.ry I,iss ... Froxfi.ehl W.I. ... Co11ha.m, St. Phnip !-lonthAea., Rt. Peter .

£ s. d. ... 615 0 •.• S O O . .. 2 6 0 ... 3 0 0

5 0 0

£22 1 6 =

DiootH Of Guildford. ' £ e. d.

W¥=!1esh&D:l WO'meii;i Fei: 111

B wtg:e•r~f ... ~ i :

£811 B

= Other DiOHNI,

Brietol, St £ •• d. 5 13 0 6 0 0 210 0

15 0 0 710 0

Holkha.m,

?:J:~~,:k. Jo1xton, Somerset

£3613 0 = Statement of Investments and Interest Received.

Dividends. . 6d. . 8d. . Sd. 3 per cent. S

3:: ~~: 1t P;:r ~~':i~. &rvey Trust ...

Bonds, 1945/47 . ek ...

1955/65

2S

513 2 3 1 2

1311 4 " .. 16 4 0 22 3 0

£8812 8

SUBSCRIPTIONS, DONATIONS AND BOXES, 1946.

Mrs. G. E. :M, Ada.me ... £ I. d. 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

I. Annersley, Esq ... .

a.:::d ~~q. ::: .. . The Bibby Line,

Mrs. The Mrs. Mrs. The Lady Mrs .• Mr. e.nd

Mfef Plr G. OooP'er :::

i'.is~03f'::ii:a::q·... ::: Miae Cha.nee

•Mis& Cr Miss E. Miss K.

•The Rev :Mr1.

*Mr. a. F. E. H. F

•J. s. J. s. Mrs. Mias The Ur. Mise

'The MrR. Mrl!I. MisR

*Mr8. Rh- K W.T. MiseHia.tt ... P. Henetock, Esq. Mr11. Harrli>1g (box) fl. I Mr111. Mrs.

~The •Mrs. . .. Mrs. Lockhart ... Mrs. Lewis

"'Mrs. Low ... . .. Mrs. Mone.v-Kyrle W. A . Flsq. Mre. ac iga.n H. R. M Esa. Miss E. C. rphy

C&.l'rierl foi'wn:rd

.. 105 1 2 2

' 0 12 5 0 110

p: 10 2 2 0

5 0 2 2 0

1 6 10 0

1 0 O 5 8

10 0 1 0 0

10 0 10 10 0 710 0

-~ ~ i . .. 1010 0

2 4 6 3 0 0 3 3 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 210 0

2' 10 0

3 3 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0

18 2 5 0 0

5 0 6. 0 0 1 0 1 0 6 6

1 1 0 15 0

2 2 0 10 0

2 2 0 1 0 0

... 230 4 9

. .. ,84d9 1 0 O 2 2 O 5 oo 5 0 D 1 0 O

2 ' ' 5' ... 11 O

1 O O 2 0 O 2 2 O 1 o.o 11, 100

10 0 3 2 6

10 0 5 0 5'

"' 7 0 100 2 2 0 5 0 0

100 5 0 2'

100 20 00 2 20

10 0 2'

295 18 'I Guild of Inter<!ession a.nrl

Work-Per Mrs. Criokshank.

Per Min Willes. Hrs. Wa.rd .. . Miss Nea.te .. . Mrs. Howis Miss

:r:B ~a.~::: Mrs. a.lmer Anon.

£ a. d. ... 11 0

10 0 5 0 6 0

12 6

2 6 10 0 2 6 3 0

12 6 5 0 5 0

1 0 0

214 6

3 0'

£30113?

.. Note.-The11e subsertherR have Aigneil ?·yf!a.r C1ovenantfl.

CHILDREN'S FUND FOR THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

sun:

£ 1. d. £ s. cl.

2 1 4 0 114 115 1 1

1

4 0 .. 1 1 6 113 6

' 6 6

' 0 0 317 0 210 0 1 0 0

' 0 .. 210 0 4 4 s• 113 '

Winchester, All Sa.inte' S.S. 1 16 O St, Thomas a.nd St.

Michael S.S. ... 2 9 o St. John's Inra.nt

School ... ... 8 6 Woolton Hill Childrtn's

Church ... ... ... ... 8 4 W Worldham Childreu's

eh sCOtne"i SiindllY 17 9"

Siinc1&Y .. i> Siinc1&Y

10 6

11 0

1 0 0 2 6 1' . ' 10 O"

£49 9 7

* Note.-'l'hese support specia.1 Cots. etc.

SUPPORTED BEDS AND COTS IN HOSPITAL. £ B, d.

M~o~e"tt.AEs~~·-~- (B•-~_). Mrs. Hett ... Capt. H. A. Hett

Todd-Naylor Cot. Mrs. Constant

Lowis Cot. Mrs. C. C. Lowis . cv:~. \~!, Cot •..

0 0 ..

5 0 0

10 0 0

6 0 0"'

cf:i. G(l~~:r;:[il~~ co_~: St. Cross Cot.

St. Croas King's M:ef!IBengers ..• . ..

St. Peter Yateley Cot. Mrs. Kel:z ... ... . ..

~:·R~~~ c:niri\~Chey:::

£ s. d.

5 0 O'

619 B

1 0 5 5

5

£50 ' • =-=

FRIENDS OF RANGOON CATHEDRAL. Hon. Secretary; Mr. J. I'A. Cartwright, 34b, Mornington Road, Ching.

ford, London, E.4.

MISSION TO THE BLIND OF BURMA. Ministers to the spiritual and temporal needs of the Burmese blind folk

Collecting boxes, leaflets, and all particulars can be obtained either from t~ Assistant Secretary, Miss D. H. Jackson, Flat 2, 333, Baring Road, Grove Park, S.E.12, or from the Hon. Treasurer, John H. Gray Burbridge, Esq " Jottings " is issued periodically and circulated to subscribers. Rev. E. c· Turner, former head of the Mission, is now at 88, Addiscombe Road, Margate. and is acting as Secretary. ·

BURMA BAND OF PRAYER, S.P.C. A little company who have pledged themselves to help win Burma for

Christ. No subscrip.tion ; the one obligation a daily remembrance of Bunna in Prayer. In no way supersedes other guilds and organisations. Embraces all who are working for Burma, either in Burma or in England. Members are of many nationalities. All are united in a daily uplift of mind for Burma ; as they say in the Lord's Prayer, .. Hallowed be Thy Name," and remember that in Burma the name of Buddha is honoured before the name of Jesus. For further particulars, write to the Secretary-Miss Dorothy Atwool, Roseland, Sennen, Cornwal1. Collecting boxes can be obtained of Miss Atwool.

PUBLICATIONS. " Burma Calling," published three times annually, may be obtained from

Miss Atwool, Roseland, Sennen, Cornwall. There is a supplement for children-" Burma Bees." Subscriptions (2/6) should be sent direct to Miss Atwool.

DIOCESAN SECRETARIES. Bath and Wells-Miss C. Lythall, Barr House, Taunton. Chester--Canon Blencowe, Backford, Chester. Ely-Rev. A. C. Blyth, Selwyn College, Cambridge. Leicester-Miss Kimpton, St. Leonard's, Leicester. London-Manchester and Blackburn-Rev. J. Hindley, Wesham Vicarage, Kirkham.

Lanes. Newcastle-Rev. W. E. Hicks, Lucker, Belford, Northumberland. Norwich-Rev. E. W. Blyth, Nonhrepps, Cromer. Oxford-Mrs. Cam. 1, Keble Road, Oxford. Peterborough-Rev. E. V. Fenn, Lois Weedon, Towccster. Rochester-Miss Soutter, Fairfield, Edenbridgc, Kent. Salisbury-Canon F. E. Trotman, Littlebredy, Dorchester. Wakefield-Mrs. Broadbent, Quarry Hllrst, Longwood, Huddersfield. Winchester-Miss C. Willes, Hope Cottage, Little Basing, Basingstoke.

Winchester-Rev. G. E. C. Knapp, East Worldham, Alton, Hants. Worcester-Mr. F. W. Wale, 42, The Hill Avenue, Worcester.

Subscriptions may be sent either to the Diocesan Secretaries or to the Hon. General Secretary, the Rev. W. C. B. Puner, The College, Bromley, Kent,

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