Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-09-24
ENTIRE WORLD
FEELS THE WAR
Presbyterian Missionaries
in Many Lands Report on
Conditions.
SAFE AT TSTNG TAU
In Syria People are Hiding Out to
Eyade Army Drait-Beasts 0i
Burden Disappear Stories
OF Grueities.


ports from the outposts OF missions
es ! blislied Throughout the world By
the Presbyterian church received and
made public here today tell OF world
wide conditions unparalleled in the
history Of the church. There is no
spot under the sun, according to
these reports, where the European
war has failed to strike blow at
commerce, no inhabitants o. the
civilized world. even 10 the half
savage Indians OF Chile and the
wandering tribes OF Syria, have failed
to feel its effects in some degree. The
situation in West Africa is critical,
Syria is enguifed by utter hopeless
ness; Persia is in a chaotic condition,
at least as far as fin3nces are con-
eerned; missionaries in Indian are
shut eff from outside financial aid;
Chile is in gitaDle plight, and in
Guatemala the poor are driven by
hunger 10 the point OF conflscating the
feedgtEffs cf the wealthy-such is the
somber picture Oh some Of the mis-
sion fields revealed by tle Pre5bE-
terrain board of foreign missions
through Rev. A. W. Hasley, its sec
reatry.
Il thought / had seen the country
restless before, but never have I'M
agined anything like the present dis
.ress and hcpelessness," writes Rev
DR.. Williams S. Nelson, long mis-
sionary in Syria, from Tripoli; under
date of August 81. Riding across the
country on Monday and Tuesday
across three districts / did not see
single camel, mule or horse and only
a few weak donkeys and very few
men. All were hiding from the army
draft, and taere was nc talk anywhere
except of means to .evade the en-
croachments of the officials.
"The draft calls for particularly al
he able-bodied men. The isl OF
pack mules calls for 3ll that are On
the officials list made only few
ago. Camels are impressed Wherever
found. Cattle and sheep are demand
ed as well IS the grain still on the
tnreshing floors. 1t simply means
the utter destruc ion OF the country
if carried out and the mgoVerlshment
OF the DGUDic IL lHcS liiod " pus "
bribe themselves off.
THE cruelty of the officials trying
70 enforce the orders means beating
and abuse for the men and destruc-
ion of household effects in the vii
lagos. One OF the men driven in was
heard to cry out imploring God to
hasten them to the seat OF war, so
that he could be armed that he might
send his first bullef INTO the heart OF
his officer. Others say If they ever
reach the front they will throw down
their arms and go over to whatever
enemy is before them in the pope OF
getting enough to eat
reassuring cablegram from the
Shantung mission at Using TAU
China. has relieved the boards appre-
hension for it's workers there. Inc
hoard has sixteen organized churches
in the war zone. The following cable
gram was sent to the mission by the
board:
at is the judgment Of the hoard
that those at Using Tau should be re-
called to a place CT safety. Anxiety
very great
The board received the following
reply:
rising Tau American Presbyterian
NISSAN is well and safe
At Bierut-prostrated by fear ol
ccnscription-the widest rumofs
were widely believed missionaries
write. The board cites on instance:
Il heard" writes its missionary
from one of the sons OF a prominent
nasba that Germany had taken pos
session OF Belgium and had inslalled
a moslem pasta as ruler over ina
part Of Europe"
Describing conditions at Belrus the
same missionary writes:
"Orders were announced from VIZ
Ottoman government for mobiilzatipn
and The calling of all eligible for mill
.tary consumption from the ages o.
nineteen to forty-five; also the abol-
ton OF all exception privileges ,ordi-
narily granted OF young and Old IRON
Beirut to l4ascnan, where thousands
If hoth Moslem and Christians lied,
some without and some with Their
AT the same moment came orders
10 commander all horses and mules
for transport service"
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