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Show Junius West Is Coming to America l.efl Utorpi.i.l St member ;;0, m I'mbabb Labor In lulled SIiiIon, Iteccnt letters from Junius West nnd dnted London. September 1Mb. slHtes that he has bm released and now on the Atlantic Ocean, In-tending In-tending 11 1 the time of writing his last letter t0 sail from Liverpool on September 30th. About the 10th of October he will rrhe In Montreal. The letters do not state whether he will come home upon arrllnn in A111-erlen, A111-erlen, or whethnr he will be csslgued ed to some eonrrenco In the I'nltod States, but ns he has been gone only fifteen months, and nn the church Is assigning innn ICuropenn inlseionar-les inlseionar-les t0 fields In tht. stntes, It is probable prob-able he will not come directly home. The letter stales that all .he Ulders lme Im'cii tak. 11 out of the German, Swiss and French mlRfllunn for tit least till urter the war Is over, nnd those whose lime bud not expired would be assigned to oilier fields After closing up his affairs In Switzerland, he nii.l companion walked walk-ed from Ilnsll over the boundary lino Into Germany, then took the train to Friuikfoit. Hero they were held up as sple5, but their American passports pass-ports soon gained them their release ami they went on to Rotterdam, where they took a boat for Knglnid. Whllo passing through Germany, they heard the roar of cannons In distant battle fields, and saw many curs loaded with both Germnii and French Injured soldiers. In Germany all was peaceful, the people going about their iicual vocations vo-cations and all supporting toynlly the whs policy of the government. In Kuglmiil all tho rcpoits were that tho allies had the Germuns whipped, while In Germany nil reports stated that the Geruu:tis had the French and Kngllsh almost driven out of Europe. |