Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10

work OF the missionaries should be
pointed 10 as being of iisquieting ra-
ture and is likely to incite the Armen-
ians to rebellion This was to be fol-
lowed by watching the most active and
Jealous of the missionaries TO prepare
the ground work for charges against
them
During the last series Of massacres
i'm Armenia 1T was claimed that the up
risings were the work OF the American
revolutionary agents. lately, however, it
has been whispered that the mission
aries were at the back of the revolution
airs agents. that TO the missionaries
should be traced the real cause of the
uprising. and that upon them should
fan the blame for the blood shed by
the Turks i'm "suppressing disorder"
Finally 10 was decided TO begin with the
Rev. George p. Knapp, who has prob
ably been the most jealous OF ell the
workers in tine cause ofChrisuanity i'm
Asiatic Turkey and he was eventually
charged with melting the Armenians
of Bitls 20 revolt and vas to have been
tried 10y the local court there on the
charge of high trasOn. Here it was that
the United States minister intewered
and the hand of the Turk was stayed
for a while But Mr. Knapp is being
expelled from Asiatic Turkey and nc
body here doubts that this is only Tie
first OF series of such explosions,
which viii end with driving out all the
American British and French mission
aries I'm accordance with Russia's policy
of Russianizing AsiaJic Turkey.
London. April 9.-The newspapers
an give prominence TO reports of the
meeting yesterday of the Armenian Re
lief Committee. presided over by the
Duke of Argyll, to protest against The
proposed expulsion from Aslatio Turk
ey of the Protestant and Roman Cath
0lic missionaries. NJ which c. l.
Schwann. NJ p. urged q resolution re-
questing the government to take i'm
mediate steps to obtain the release OF
the Rev. George p. Knapp the Amer
lean missionary Canon Gore and Sir
J. Kennaway. ". p of the committee
appointed for that purpose, will call the
attention Of the Conservative leader i'm
the House OF Commons, Mr.. A. J. Bal
fOur, TO the matter and ask that he urge
the increase i'm the number Of British
consuls i'm Asiatic Turkey as their pres
ence there will have a Salutarv effect
i'm preventing Outrag6s upon Christians
and i'm aiding i'm the work OF relieving
the distressed Armenians
The Duke of Westminster. who has
direc, Information that the sultan pro-
poses to eXpel the Protestant and R0-
man Catholic missionaries from Asiatic
Turkey, is communicating on the sub
jec, with the Marquis of Salisbury.
Paris, April 9-COnsiderable irila-
ton against Turkey has been aroused
here by reports from COnstan-inople
and London that the sultan has decided
90 eXpel AN Roman Catholic and Pro
tesant missionaries from Asiatic Turk
ey on the ground that they have been
instrumental i'm melting the Armenians
20 revolt The papers. particularly
The Fi3glrO. have taken up the cues
ton I'm earnest. as one directly and
strongly affecting Christianity, and as
calling for prompt and effective action.
The FiagarO complains of the deception
that the Turkish officials have pracIic-
ed upon the world at large in the white
washing stories of the massacres sent
out by the Turkish government and eX-
presses the hope that France will not
permit the missionaries to be expelled
from Asiatic Turkey Other news
papers express similar views and hope
chat the French government VIII act
with pvomptness and energy in the mat
Ter,