NISSIONARIES IN DANGER

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1898, Page 5

NISSIONARIES IN DANGER

THOSE WTTO FAILED TO LEAVE THE CAROLINE ISLANDS MAY , BE MASSACRED BY SPANIARDS.

VICTORIA, 8.C., May 18

News is brought by passengers from the Caroline .Islands, who arrived her on the steamer Aorangi. They say that there are many American missions on the Carolines, the. gToup of Spanish ' islands in the Southern Pacific, both Catholic and.Protestant, which will suffer on account of th war. Even in times of peace the Spanish residents there,have never lost an opportunity to show their hatred for the Americans, and when the news of. Spanish reverses reaches the islands it. would undoubtedly mean the massacre of the missionaries and the demolishment of their miss Tons, which were in a most flourishing1 condition. The missionaries were asked to leave the islands when the steamer Archer left'for Sydney just before the war commenced, but they, thinking1 their calling- would be sufficient protection for them with a people alleged to be Christians, would not relinquish their work. According- to the passengers on the AorangJ, who decline to give their names, fearing- it may injure them, as they have large interests in the Carolines", they will be martyrs to their duty, as the Spaniards will assuredly slay them in revenge for the reverses of their country. News also comes of the loss of the German schooner Alster, on a voyage from the Marshall to the Caroline Islands, with all oa board.