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Show . : THE TROUBLES IX SAMOA. An English Missionary Saj They are Sure to Religious liflt'tv?nces. Chicago, Dec. 5. Rev. J. Whitmore of the Londou Non-Sectarian -Css-ionary Society So-ciety is in the city eu roit- to Samoa. His return to the island is sed by the political troubles which hike seriously affected missionary work. Hia information by mail leads him to believe tilt much of the alleged news regarding Safcoan affairs, has, in tact little foundation. IV does not believe that dissatisfaction Ath Ceder-krantz, Ceder-krantz, the chief Justice, has hal enything to do with the present crisis. While he does not feel that the crisis is doi entirely to religion, he thinks it has beik fgreatly. influenced by the divergent reliljus beliefs be-liefs of the claimants to the croM. He says Mataafa is a Catholic, suppled to some extent by the French priests n his j rebellion against King Malietoa, wl() is a ' protestant. He gives the American g(vern-ment g(vern-ment great credit for his attitude tWard Samoa, saying that but for it the -rrlin conference would never have been held4 |