The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-12-13
ANNUAL REPORT
OF the American Board of Commissioners
okForeigH missions.

Boston. December 12.-The eighty-fourth
annual report of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions. whose
Offices are in Boston, New \ ork and
Chicago, is published today.
The Asiatic Turkish missions of the broad
are sub-divided into the western Turkey
mission. the central Turkey mission and the
eastern Turkey. Bitlis...in eastern Turkey.
| is the city where the governor resides, who.
accordingto recent telegraphic dispatches,
gave the order for the alleged massacres.
In that city, according to the report, the
following missionaries of the board reside ::
G gorge Q. Knapp, Royal NJ. Cole. George P.
Knapp, Mrs. A1zina L. Knapp, Mrs. Lizzie
Cole. Mrs. Anna H. Knapp, Miss Charlotte
E. Ely, Miss Mary A. G. Ely, Miss Grace M.
Knapp.
Rev. George C. Knapp and Mrs. Alzina NJ.
Knapp have been in Bitlis since 1855. Rev.
Geogre P. Knapp and Mrs. Anna H. Knapp
became missionaries there in 1890. Mrs.
Lizzie Cole. Miss Charlotte E. Ely and Miss
May A. o. Ely, in 1865 ard Miss Grace H.
Knapp in 1898.
Bitlis has suffered from famine as much
as any other stationdh eastern Turkey. un-
less it be Erzroom. This has diminished the
Of many of the out stations, and has led to
great deprivation.
This station is in central Koordistan, and
is in the widest region probably of any
mission station in Turkey.
At the city of EIZroom, at the north of
the district in which the niassacres have
been reported, reside the following mission
aries and members OF missionary families:
IA, A Es.1,-
Frederick W. Macallum, Mrs. Cornelia B.
Chambers, Mrs. Myra W. Richardson, Mrs.
Henrietta Nj. Macallum. Miss Fife M.
Chambers. Erzroo1n. like Bitlis, has called
for much labor during the year in caring
for the sufferers. Thousands of those who
had means at the beginning of the famine
trouble soon found their means exhausted
by the high prices which they We're COM
PEELED to pay for food.
IN CHINA.
The telegraphic dispatches of Monday.
December lU, stated that the Japanese I'd
army will make an early advance upon
Pekin, and that the Japanese government
had contracted for force of 800 coolies to
accompany this army. The region included
in the seat of war contains the North China
Mission CT the American Board.
The central fact of interest in the Pekin
station, as indeed in most of the others is
| the revival season, so earnestly and Yet so
wisely conducted. "In an experience OF 40
| years" says DR.. Blodget, nothing has
been known like it, The whole North
China mission with its 20.C00,C00 OF people
ana only about fifty Congregational mis-
sionaries on the field, needs reinforcements.
Limiting their request to what they deem
the lowest figures the missionaries OF North
China ask for twelve new helpers.
During all the year this movement was
especially hard on those Japanese who have
lent their names and influence to secure
and hold the lands and residences Of
foreigners in the interior. They were freely
called traitors, and no abusive language
and no threats were regarded as too. severe
by the larger part OF the daily press
The following is a summary OF donations
received during the year, from New Eng
land States and from New York:
Maine, Sl5,O96.14
New Hampshire, 39,1sS.us
Vermont, - II, 553. 80
Massachusetts 24i,484. 90
Rhode Island 1,443.6l
Connect1out. 9l,Ol0.14
New York, 75,Sl0.2o
New England contributed more than one.
nail the total income of the board. Whlch
was S'oo, 1920. Massachusetts contributed
more Than all the rest of the New England
States combined, New York contributed
more than any New England State except
massachusetts and Connecticut.
Inc donations additional to those OF Ne"
England and New York may be summarized
and classified as follows:
New Jersey, $f6Sn59
PENNSYLVANIA, 7,S5S.96
Delaware, S1.0J
4
s s.- Total $l5.O90.55