Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-24 | Page 3 | Justifies the Missionaries

J g Minister Confer Upholds Uphold Their Course During the tho SIege o Victoria B Ii C April nn all In IntervIew with time till Kobe loh Herald Minis Minister Minister ter Conger Congor who Is s on his way to San Ban Francisco said There Timare were really no nn acts on time the part of ot tho time missionaries there that lint were not entirely Justified when time the circumstances are known did not no loot 1001 Missionaries found 2000 destitute men and women on all their hands There 1111 no govern goern government ment no organized authority There were hundreds of or men who hall had been firing on the foreign quarter directing the attacking leaders lenders of ot the Boxers their property had been heen abandoned as asa asa asa a result of ot the tho state of at war and amid It was wai fa take lake In order to succor hundreds of suffering and anI destitute Chinese whoso lives time the original owners had been laboring to destroy Winter was com coming comIng ing on anti amI measures of sonic some kind were Imperative tind the time appropriation of property pro for tor the tho ends In tim view was unquestionably justified That briefly was Willi time tile situation and andI anI I am ama prepared to Justify ju the conduct of ot the American missionaries before the tho siege during the time siege and amI after the siege