ECHO OF THE WAR

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 3, 25 October 1924, Page 6

ECHO OF THE WAR

.-1. . » ■ THE MANDATED tERTRITO,R^I ES. DEPORTATION OF GERRTAN-|IOfiN MISSIONARIES. % Press Association —Copyright, (Received 9.35 a.m.) Brisbane, October 25 The Anglican Provincial 'Synod;, at Rockhampton, on the motion (jf. ( tlie Bishop of New Guinea, adopted a resolution asking the Commonwealth authorities to rescind the order that all German-horn missionaries leave the mandated territories by Ist July, 1928. * ' Wpr A--,'

The belief was expressed that the deportation of the German rrtViv.d'naries who Wad not beep guilty of disloyalty, would be highly detrimental to mission work.

The mover said that at the deportation was decided*lpxhf, the missionaries’ feelings were a good deal stirred, but now, of years, they were able, a wider and more Christian view. The motion meant heipiu|ri '’noTT'tmly 1 the Anglican but all tlie mission bodies in the mandated territoriM^ tV2'Z~S