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Show TURKS TAKE -THE BIBLES Sharp Note Sent to Sultan Sul-tan by the American Legation. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15. The American Consul at Kharput, Dr. Thomas H. Norton, has been Instructed to proceed to the Turko-Perslan frontier and watch the operations of the Turk-; Turk-; lsh and Persian authorities- who have undertaken to arrest the Kurdish murderers mur-derers of the American missionary, the Rev. B. W. Labaree, who was killed in April last. Despite the Porte's repeated promises to the American legation not to permit vendors of Bibles of the American Bible society to be molested, the local authorities author-ities at Angora, Treblzond and Ordu still detain vendors, have seized their Bibles and threaten to arrest any one attempting to sell them. The legation, therefore, has addressed a more imperative imper-ative note to the Porte calling attention to this non-compliance with instructions instruc-tions which the legation has been assured as-sured had been given to surrender the Bibles and not interfere with the work of the Bible house and demanding a prompt settlement, failing which the matter would be referred to Washington. |