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HEAR REPORT ON
FOREIGN MISSIONS
READ BEFORE PRESENTER
IANs AT DIES MONIES
WOOD FORBES PROBE
Confidence In British Generosity
In Settling Affairs In India
Expressed. Z
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Des Moines, Ia. May 25.-The
Wooden. Forbes investigation IN the
Philippines, the situation in China
Mexican and Japanese relation, the
non cooperative movement in India,
and the Near Eastern question were
touched upon in the report OF the
Presbyterian hoard Of foreign mis-
sions, which was presented here to-
day to the general assembly Of, the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America. Rev. Dr.. George
Alexander is president of the board.
The Wood Forbes report was de-
clared, despite ats recommendation
of making haste slowly, a tribute to
the good sense. the desire for know
ledge and the idealsm of the Flip
Pine people" The report Of the
mission board asserted that the
Four Power Treaty would help
solve zone OF the larger difficulties
that confront the Philippine pro-
gram, viz, the danger of aggression
by other nations. Speaking of the
Filipino people. the report con-
tinued. Their course of active CO.
operation in the administration
of the government is in great con-
trast with the non cooperative
trnpaign of the nationalist in In
dia."
While deprecating the nationalist
campaign in India, expressing con-
fidence in British generosity and
declaring that "a vast number OF
leading Indians are counseling mo-
letter from a Christian worker in
India which expressed admiration
for the spirit Of the nationalist
movement, as follows:
The pledges of the national vol
unteer corps, which the government
has declared unlawful, takes one
back to Covenantor days in Scot
Greatly Admire Spirit
I'VE cannot but admire such a
spirit as this, now would 1t be hard
for us to discover the source from
which they proceed. The like has
never before appeared in India, and
would not have appeared today had
not the Gospel message come here
the true meaning of which perhaps
people of India may help the rest of
the world to understand. At the
close Of a lecture delivered recently
by a missionary in Bombay, the
chairman, Hindu, said: Is 1t not
remarkable that in the whole world,
the only country where a great ma
tional movement, with many mis-
calculations and grievious failures,
no doubt, has based itself avowedly
on Christ's central doctrines of non
resistance to evil, should be India, a
country which does not profess
Christianity" .
The pledges deferred to, as quoted
in the letter. included promise OF
service to ''the submerged classes,
and contact with them" The letter
also pointed out that equal rights
for women and abolition of caste
were endorsed at the annual gath =
ering of the Social Reform Associa-
ton at Ahmadabad.
In China, despite banditry, cor
ruption of officials which has new
er been worse" and revolution, the
report stated ''the life of the aver
ging along about as usual" Strain
ed relations with Japan it was add
ed, have been noticeably improved
by the Washington Conference"
The Washington Conference was
also credited with dissipatiug much
Japanese suspicion of America.
Korean Conditions Improve
In Korea an improvement" over
conditions of a year ago was as
cribed to the program of Governor
General Saito, but the report added
that some of the lower officials and
| police were mot in sympathy with
his kind purposes"
A plea was made for harmony
with the Spanish American repub-
lies. A playground in Mexico City
given to the Mexican government
by the American community at the
| suggestion one of our missionaries
was said to have strengthened
| friendly relations.
The = allies were censured for
permitting, by apathy, opportunisnl
and tinlidity, the Nationalist Turks
practically to dictate terms in the
Near East. THE latest decision of
the Allies, the report added which
apparently leaves the Armenians
under the sovereignty of the Turks
seems to be shocking betrayal OF
Justice. Nor can the United States
escape responsibility. The plea that
she must avoid entangling alliances
does not warrant her refusal to in
sist on fair play when a helpless and
beseeching sister nation is being
brutality attacked. robbed and
thrown out to die"