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SIONARIE

NEAR EAST.

THE DISLOYALTY

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will be remembered that *sometime ago there was a very Ambiguous telegramr about Ameri- can missionaries in Bulgaria'and Pornia being charged with dis- loyalty, Papers received by the -mail supply some more parti- culars, but nothing very definite. It was reported at Washington that an official investigation is being conducted to ascertain Whether two American mission- Aries who had served in Bulgaria under the American Board of Commissionaries

for Foreign

Missions, and. who returned to the United States during the war, were at that time in the pay of the Bulgarian Government, as has been alleged.

-----According to the allegations that have been made, these two missionaries carried their Bul-| garian propaganda so far that Dr. James L. Barton, secretary of the board and chairman of the Com- mittee for Relief in the Near East, wrote to these missionaries that they would have to desist or resign from the board. One is said to have resigned, and the other two have ceased engaging. in propaganda work.

At least 20 of the 25 American missionaries in Bulgaria are charged with having maintained à pro-German attitude during the war, it was learned from official sources.

It is understood that the American missionaries in Persia who are charged with political activities are not accused of any activities friendly to the enemy. It is alleged that they have attempted to interfere with the domestic affairs of Persia, and that their activities in this respect antedated the European war. These missionaries operate under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions of New York, and it was indicated that their political" activities were limited practically to one section in north-west Persia. These missionaries are said to have leaned towards the Assyrians in controversies be- tween the latter and the Persians.

Only one missionary is involved in charges of disloyal activities brought to the attention of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions by the State Department at Washington, said Dr. William E Strong, secretary of the Editorial Department of the Board,' to a representative of the Christian Science Monitor who sought an Interview. "Regarding the dis- patch from Washington about. charges brought by the State Department as to the political activities of American Board missionaries, I am glad to state the exact facts, in, the case." said Dr. Strong.

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The American Board has no missionaries in Persia. It has to soldier who had returned to civil determination of small nations is

The defendant was a demobilised The principle of the evidence or suspicion that its life to find that his wife had lost, strayed. or stolen. missionaries "in Bulgaria" elsewhere are pro-German in fallen a victim to the dread In these latter days of the their attitude. The evidence is disease. The solicitor represent Peace Conference this slogan is meanwhile, that down in Mace-mentos and public statements in all on the other side. It has ing the wife said he had advised beard no more; once on the lips donia Bulgars should be under the Bulgarian language. received no charges that any of the husband, in the interests of his of all statesmen of all nations the rule of Serbs, and in the its missionaries were supplied own health, not to go back to her both in their own home towns eastern part of Serbia Serbians mination

By the cry "The self-deter- The defending solicitor said the and in the great conference at should be under Bulgarian rule.

of small nations," of money to relieve war distress. husband was anxions to go back Paris, it is a phrase that to-day

which started in Russia, which and that they used these funds to his wife, but he also had im- finds no more voicing.

At the Peace Conferenes to-was taken up in our White House favour certain factions hostile to pressed upon him the great risk There is a cluster of yardsticks day, where the effort to create a and which ran through White ball the existing Government or to the

be ran, An agreed order for 18s.to change the figure-by which warless world is being made, it in London, through every large Powers associated with the weekly was mode.

the statesman in Paris measure would seem that the statesmen capital in the world, and which United States in the war

each national problem that can- would at least try to com-now is loudest in the empires "It is investigating carefully a

The number of depositors at fronts them, There is the yard-pose affairs in the Balkans that were shattered into their specific report made to it by the the postal savings banks through. stick of treaties, the yardstick of 80 that from that State Department concerning the out Japan on May 30 reached 20-expediency. the

former component parts by defeat in the yardstick of whirlpool of war 2

conflict war, Macedonia should be under action of one of its missionaries 400,901, the money held in trust practicality, the yardstick of should never again arise. If the Bulgarian domination. to Bulgaria, not new in that to their credit amounting to Yen justice and several other gauges, Turks purposely tried to canse effort

Germans and Austrians and Bulgaria, however, country, and is in communica- 588,807.010, showing an increase including the Yardstick of

to pur forth tion with the State Department of 225,127 in number financial demand. But from this dissensions among the Balkan practical thereabout. When the investiga. of depósitors

measure and

by which of Yen cluster there has disappeared that peoples over their boundaries, it the Bulgars in Macedonia may tion is completed, definite and 4,855.228 in deposits as against fundamental and what at first the would appear that the Entente escape from Greek and Serbian decisive action will be taken in returns for the end of the preced-world supposed to be the measure statesmen would take the opposite domination. accord with the result of the ing month. As to the book transfer of all other measures, the yard track and follow to the last live Macedonia should be made an willing that investigation.

savings, the number of subscribers stick of the self-determination of the policy of making clean-cut autonomous nation, under some TARANTULLE, In general, it is to be noted reached 124, 854 and the amount small nations."

borders between the Balkan satisfactory mandatory. that missionaries, while intenti

refunded Yen 25,735,526, rep In plain words, that system is peoples, based on nationality.

Up to this time, however, the for Ladies & child- upon their moral and religious resenting an increase of 1,561 not working task, cannot but become intense of Yen 1,687,556 in money over of the various Balkan problema.

Peace Conference leaders, who in the number of subscribers and ly devoted to the peoples among the end of May last year.

It disappeared in the handling One instance of this is Mace are taking their advice in the

donia. Of all the sore spots on mafter solely from Venizelos-there's whom they labour and for whom

Truth to tell, there is no joking this earth Macedonia is the British have sent all their Balkan they are giving their lives: They

Of all the sorest; here the nerves of this experts to other parts of the are sensitive to every injustice sharply judged and often misapots on this earth where the wart-tested earth are the most world on other missions are which they think these people judged. The officers of the Board self-determination of small peo-exposed. suffer and eager to help them to are not prepared to believe that the Balkans. Under the Austro-population is Bulgarian. All of To do this will be to keep alive congittering nothing but the pro- ples ought to be followed, it is in every advantage which seems to any of its missionaries has meant German regime it was the aim the statesmen of Bulgaris who all the enmities and Balkan hat

Macedonia is Bulgarian. The between Greece and Berbia.

position of dividing Macedonia. them to be fair.

to violate the instructions of the CAREFUL AS A CLASS. Board or to engage in political of the Austrian, German, and have conducted Bulgaria through red that started the great war "Though the Board's instruc-intrigue."

Turkish: statesmen to keep the the war came not from the cities tions to its missionaries are to keep themselves quite clear from was credited to William. Phillips, Balkan peoples could not be in 1915, as I watched the English capture Falestine and a Balkan states in a turmoil. While of Bulgaria, but from the towns Feisal, son of the Hussein of The report from Washington they were fighting each other the of Macedonia In Monastir, Mecca, did so much to help the The Arabs, who, under Emir all political, partisan, or national Assistant Secretary of State, and propaganda, and while as a class was to the effect that the Board strong they are exceedingly careful in had been advised by the State meddling in the Balkans is seen Allies, I realized that nine-tenth principle of the self determina An instance of the Austrian of the city by the enemy of the feeling the lack of the citizens prepare for the seizure Turkish army of 90,000 men are this particular, it happens some- Department of formal charges of times that under the earnestness pro-German activities and politi-Balkan war the Austrians owned joy in their hearts, for the incom French holding Tri

in the fact that before the second of the citizens were waiting, with tion of small peoples. The of their feeling they break over cal interference by missionaries ten of the biggest newspapers in ing of the Bulgarian army The heart of the Arab countr the proper bounds of speech or both in Bulgaria and Northers Bulgaria, and ten of the biggest American mission school st to consider withdrs action

Persia that had greatly disturbed In the excitement of these war the State Department. A specific newspapers in Serbia. Through Monastir had so few Serbian and have eno times in the Balkan States and charge was that the missionaries these newspapers, which in reality. Greek pupils that the the tension of national feelings had used funds designed to aid constituted the press of the respec-language was used, inst between those States, it is war sufferers, to further the cause a countries, the Austriane, rooms and in the read inevitable that suspicion should of Bulgaris, and, indirectly, the preached hate and warrant of the be quickly aroused, and that canse of her allies Germany and

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