MISSIONARIES
PERSECUTED
IN PERSIA
ST. LOUIS, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—Instances in which Presby
terian missionaries in foreign lands
sometimes sacrificed their lives or
suffered the loss of their liberty while
engaged in their work in behalf of
the oppressed nationalities during the
war are related in the annual report
of the board of foreign missions to
the Presbyterian church presented to
the Presbyterian general assembly.
“Many missionaries died as a result
of the diseases contracted in the
famine work in Persia,” says the re
port. “The mission work saved many
other thousands. In Northwestern
Persia the Kurds and the Turks drove
80,000 people in panic fright. Dr. W. A.
Shedd, a Presbyterian missionary,
who accompanied the refugees, died
on the journey as victim of cholera, as
he was seeking to protect the fleeing
people from their enemies in the rear.
Dr. W. S. Vanneman and Dr. I'\ N. Jes
sup, Presbyterian missionaries in Ta
briz, were imprisoned by the Turks,
and their buildings looted
"Death in all forms is reported by
the board as reaping a terrible har
vest in Syria and Palestine. Dr. Will
iam S. Nelson and Charles Dana were
jailed without food or water for days
for their relief work which offended
the Turks. The Syrian relief work
revealed indescribable misery. A
father stole food given to his little
child until the child died of starva
tion. Women lured children to their
homes, killed them, ate their flesh,
boiled the fat and sold it in the mar
ket place.”
Concerning Korea the report says:
"The missionaries are in a position of
great delicacy. If they avow sympathy
with the Koreans they incur the wrath
of Japan and the danger of expulsion
from the country. If on the other
hand, they avow sympathy with the
Japanese, they destroy their influence
with the Koreans.” The board tells
also of complications coused by the
Japanese demanding the separation of
education and religion in mission as
well as in government schools, a prob
lem which is not yet adjusted.
Concerning Latin America the board
finds “not for a generation has the
feeling toward the United States been
so sympathetic and kindly a3 it is to
day.” In India the board reports not
able loyalty and order, but “deep und
ercurrents which no one is able to
estimate. Politically,” it adds, “there
is sure to be an increasing measure
of autonomy.”
A summary of the work of the for
eign missions says: “The Presbyter
ians have in the field 1,346 foreign
missionaries and 6,806 native workers
in 16 countries and 3,832 cities of the
non-Christian world. The Presbyter
ian congregations in this field number
4,521 with 177,766 communicants and
449,277 adherents; 189 hospitals and
dispensaries treated 787,618 patients.
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ALASKA TO BE
DEVELOPED AS
COW COUNTRY
SEATTLE, May 29 (by Associated
Press).—Great plains lying along the
Arctic coast in northern Alaska and
Canada soon may become America’s
latest "cow country” as Governor
Thomas Riggs, jr., of Alaska and Vil
hjalmur Stefansson, Canadian explor
er, are advocating the transplanting
and developing of herds of musk oxen
into the now barren lands of the far
north.
A dispatch received here from Ot
tawa said the Canadian government
may adopt Stefansson’s proposal that
an experimental station be established
on Melville island, which lies in the
Arctic west of the mouth of the Mc
Kenzie river. Stefansson says there
are about 4,000 oxen on Melville
island.
Herds later would be moved from
Melville island to the Canadian main
land for breeding and slaughtering,
according to Stefansson. Laplanders
probably would be secured as "cow
boys” to handle the herds.
Arthur Meighan, Canadian minister
of the interior is favorably impressed
with Stefansson’s scheme, it was re
ported. Stefansson recently went be
fore the Canadian parliament and told
of his scheme for domesticating the
oxen. He suggested that reindeer also
be imported.
Alaskans interested in the musk
oxen proposal have circulated a peti
tion in the north addressed to con
gress asking that the animals be ob
tained from the Canadian Arctic
islands and transplanted in northern
Alaska. The Alaskans point to the
fact that the government about twenty
years ago introduced 1,280 domestic
reindeer into northwestern Alaska.
Under Esikmo care these herds have
increased at the rate of doubling in
three years.
Musk oxen if developed in the north
will furnish meat, milk, and wool.
They naturally are a cold weather ani
mal and can well stand the rigors of
the northern climate, it is claimed.
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We carry a full line of Pipes,
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I First Bank of Valdez. 245,064.24 |
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| First Bank of Cordova ..677,056.22
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