OCR Text |
Show HOPES REPORT UNTRUE Bishop Refers to Alleged Importation of Negresses. NKW YORK. Nov. 28. Bbdinp Thomas B N'.el.v. who represents the Methodist I church in South America, talked to th-Methodist th-Methodist preachers at their meeting fKlerdn) III the course of his address , he mad.- reference to the reports of lm-portatlon lm-portatlon of negro women from Jamaica and Martinique Into the canal zone. It , has been said that the women In question Were Imported for immoral purposes. Said the bishop; doubt this report . ' It .v.-'-ms to me hardly to be likely, and ' Until President Roosevelt Investigates, as I feel sure h- ought to do, nnd as 1 feel (pilte sure h. will do let its nssume the report is not true. I am willing to wait for proof.'' |