CARDINAL MORAN’S CHARGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 804, 20 January 1903, Page 2

CARDINAL MORAN’S CHARGES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Jan. 19.

Cardinal Moran said he had been censured for comparing the proceedings of the allies and their native auxiliaries in Samoa to the Armenian outrages. Possibly he erred in the comparison. He should, probably, have said the proceedings were far worse than the Armenian outrages, for the reason that two great Powers were responsible for them, and they were perpetuated with a semblance of legality, in the name of civilisation, under the mask of justice, What could be stronger than the final and authoritative decision of King Oscar as arbitrator that the action of the American and British warships was an illegal, unwarranted, wanton and cruel wrong. He warmly denied the allegation that be had imputed all the calamities of war to the British Admiralty and officers engaged in it. In ‘ Ui a charges against the prosupport oi - testant missionaries he quo., the Tanu chiefs, who when asked wn, they destroyed the Catholic churches and , priests’ residence, said, “ Our white teachers urged ue to do eo.”