GERMAN MISSIONARIES
WANT TO RESUME WORK IN BRITISH COUNTRIES. CHURCHILL’S TACTFUL REPLY(Received July 27, S p.m.) LONDON, July 26. The Secretary of the , World Alliance for promoting international friendship through the _ churches written the Colonial, Foreign, and India Offices suggesting that German missionaries be allowed to resume work in certain British territories. Mr Churchill has replied that the war showed that certain foreign societies and individuals were unable to prevent their national instincts influencing their condxict to a degree incompatible with their proper functions and prejudicial to the security of the territories in which they were working. Nevertheless applications from individual missionaries of unimpeachable antecedents would be considered. provided they were undei tlie control of British Allied or associated subjects and viuched for bv a responsible British ecclesiastical authoritv. The circumstances m mandated territories, however, were exceptional, requiring a degree ot i supervision winch was not neces- ! sary elsewhere! —Reuter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6142, 28 July 1921, Page 5
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