MISSIONARIES IN TROUBLE.
FRENCH COMPLAINTS.
I PRESBYTERIAN PRISONS IN . NEW HEBRIDES.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
Bγ Tcleßrnpli-Prcss Association-Copvriehl (lice. .April 7, 0.15 a.m.)Paris, April C. While the Cnloninl Estimates were being discussed in the Chamber, M. Augancur, a former Governor-General o£ Madagascar, complained that the Pres-', byteriau missionaries in the New Hebrides combated French influence, and did not hesitate, to arrogate to themselves administrative powers. They had established their own tribunals and prisons on eoino' of (he islands. M. Messimy, Minister for the Colonies,' concurred in the complaint?, and ckatao. 1 terised the position as intolerable.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1096, 7 April 1911, Page 5
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