The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-18
MINISTER'S SOUND
 SERIOUS WARNING
SEE JAPAN MAKING DANGEROUS ENGAGEMENTS, THREATEN
 ING AMERICAN LIBERTY.
Missionaries of the Leading Churches at Work in Foreign Fields Send 5000 Word Cable to President.

Picking. April 7-Intervention by the United States in the negotiations now proceeding between China and Japan is recommended to President Wilson in the appeal recently sent him by American missionaries in this country.
 The message was 5000 words and forwarded to Washington by cable It characterizes the Japanese de- mands on China as acts Of aggression such as eventually will present a menace to the United States.
 Recalling the fact that Japan has at present in this country double her usual quota Of troops (amounting to 60000 mem, the missionaries urge that Japan be notified that the excess of troops should he removed
 The understand aere is that a Chi nese official. or several of them. paid the cable charges, amounting to nearly $6,o00, on the message to President Wilson. This communica- tion was signed by the Revs. F. W. living, John Wherry, C. IT, Feun and w. A. r. Martin, all connected with the American Presbyterian mission at Peking the Rev. Chauncey Goodrich of the American board of commissions CTS for foreign missions, who is sta toned at Tien Tsn the Rev II. II. Lowry of the Methodist Episcopal mission at Picking, and the Rev. C. F. Hubbard.
 There are in China several hun dred American missionaries, Of whom the great majority have not seen the message. Some of them who were re. quested to sign it declined The American board recently requested it's missionaries to avoid public eX- pression of opinion on political at- fairs, and although it is said the mis- sionaTies generally side with China in the present controversy few of them have been active politically.
 The petition asks President Wilson to demand of China, and not of Japan, American participation in the confer ences now under way It is sus- gested that Great Britain and other nations be invited to participate.
 The missionaries ask that the gov ernments of both China and Japan be notified that the presence of unusual bodies of Japanese troops on Chinese soil not only embarrasses the freedom of negotiations but constitutes an out rage to the rights of China, and se- rious menace to the peace and safety of Americans and foreigners general ly.",and recommends that pending the removal of excessive contingents of Japanese troops all negotiations should be suspended"
 Declaring that we wish it under. stood that we are not partisans,' the message says:
 Let it not be thought that China is a republic only in name because Of the autocratic powers at present vist ed in the president. The powers of his nigh office are wisely and patri otically exercised The formalities and parade of kingly station are al! avoided, and advancement toward a more popular form of government is vastly easier than it would be under imperial rule"
 The memorial offers explanation Of the shortcomings and enumerates the achievements of the Chinese govern ment. It denounces Japanese aggres sion" as "a danger not only to China but eventually 10 America and adds.
 Shall we go on forever being fooled by fair speeches made at fult dress banquets al the Japanese