The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-21
Americans in Orient
Are Subjected to
Many Indignities
RE-OPENING OF
SCHOOLS DELAYED
Revision of Ara b Il c
Bible Is Completed,
However
sY THE RELIGIOUS RANeLER.

BY THE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.
/ Uely rUmors are seep.ng out OF
Turkey concerning the situation o.,
Z americans outside Of CONSTANT
/ noTle aad some missionaries have
rad 70 leave their stations. Others
are being subjected 20 unprecedent-
ed snnoyances, and the German
aati.American campaign Is being et-
tended 10 centers az mission vo-k
where there are many Americans
The task Of succoring the suffering
natives grows heavier daily. Mean
y hile despite wars alarms, not
able milestone In missions has been
achieved by the completion OF the
Arabic reference Bible AZ the Amer
lean Nilsson Press. Belrat, syria.
While mails have been irregular.
and the censorship street. news OF
I present conditions IA 4arksy has
come 20 America through various
I channels While no American has
thus far been killed or seriously in
/ Jured. many annoyances are report
I ed. Including tie searching OF The
/ persons OF American missionaries.
Nest Of them report no mail OF pa
pers for weeks Or months
When the L. : 5. Dies Moines"
arrived az Beirut this summer the
Turkish authorities refused 70 allow
any OF the resident American mis-
s!onaries or educators 20 70 aboard
Der. unless they would consent to
De completely searched. both before
and after visiting the ship. Natur-
ally. tEey refused 10 consent 20 this
indisEitY. and The result was that
nobody but the consul general was
sole 20 visit the ship which was the
only spot representing American
sovereignty IN al that region some
OF the Americans are grlmbling that
they are treated almost as prisoners
OF var.
Things are scarcely SO bad as that.
I however The British and French
and Russian missionaries and other
residents OF the belIiEerent powers
were long ago interned az Damascus.
4 Now they have been sent far into
the interior. 70 The city of Crfa,
which vas the ancient Odessa. and
shut Up IN ar Armenian monastery
Court martial now rules u Tur
key. and even Americans are sub
/ Jet 20 T. One man vas arrested.
The American board reports that,
upon the advice % the American am
bsssador IN ConsnnJinopie, and q
veteran missionaries on the field,
no new missionaries will De sent out
20 Turkey while present conditions
prevail nor viii those on fgrlough In
this country be allowed 20 return.
Arnenians are suffering beyond
words. there Is 10 intimaton, says
the board, that the American mis-
sionariss themselves are IN per
sonsl peril There - some mystery
about the departure Of the mission
aries. Dr. and Mrs Smith. from Diar-
beIier. apparently under government
escort.
The American schools AMI col.
leges In Turkey Tiu not all open at
the usual t,u1o this fall. says the
hoard. owing 70 the disturbed condl.
tons.
One % The American board on.
cials SIMS up the situs ton thus:
The two uncertainties that con
front the situation r. Turkey are
First. the success % the Allies and.
second, the relations between Ger
many and the United States. II can
easily be understood that important
. changes may como 20 our work a.
any time through one or both Of
, thees events Under no circum.
= stances IL there reason 20 fear an
attack upon the missionaries but
/. in case OF a rupture between Ger
; many and The United States before
! the Allies reach Constautinopie. our
, work probably would be- seriously
) Handicapped
5 After seven years % labor. a
Z Ttnnsyivsuian. Dr. Franklin Z Hos
kins. OF the American Mission Press.
, Beirut, has completed the first ref
!. erence Bible in Arabic
Tho ihsk has been a double oncs
= The adaptation 81 new sot Of rot.
!. orenoes 70 the Arabic text and put.
3 ting the whole first fort reference
} Bible into electropiaies The prep
I aration OF the MSS has occupied ex-
p sc'ly seven years, The making Of
3 the plates all be- completed IN six
/. years.
J. In close connection with this
work end forming an extension OF -
has been the careful correction Of