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Show Junius West Is , Coming to America Left LIutimioI September 80II1 Will I'rolmbly Labor in t'nlted Stales. Recent letters from Junius West and dated London, September l&th, stnlcs that ho has been rolenscd nnd Is now on tho Atlantic Ocean, Intending In-tending at tho tlmo of writing his hiBt letter to sail from Liverpool on September 30th. About tho 10th of October ho will arrive in Montreal. Tho letters do not stnto whether ho will como home upon arriving In Am-erlcn, Am-erlcn, or whether ho will bo nsslgucd ed to some conference in tho United States, but ns he has been gono only fifteen months, and as tho church Is assigning many European missionaries missionar-ies t0 fields In tho Btates, It is probable prob-able ho will not come directly homo The letter states thnt nil tho Elders hnvo been taken out of tho German, Swiss and French missions for at least till nftor the war is over, and thoBu whoso tlmo had not expired would be assigned to other fields. After closing up his affairs iu Switzerland, he and companion walked walk-ed from Unsll over the boundary lino Into Germany, then took tho train to Frankfort. Here they wero hold up as spies, but their American passports pass-ports soon gained them their rclcaso and they went on to Rotterdam, where they took a boat for England. While passing through Germany, they heard tho roar of cannons in distant battle fields, nud saw many cars loaded with both German nnd French Injured soldiers. In Germany nil was peaceful, tho pcoplo going about their usual vocations vo-cations and all supporting toynlly tho wns policy of tho government. Iu England nil tho reports wero thnt tho allies had tho Gormnns whipped, while In Germany all reports stated that tho Germans had tho French and English almost driven out of Europe. |