Show TP WAR AND THE MISSIONS Where They Arc Located and the Possiblo Danger to Them Every one interested in mission Work in eastern Asia will watch with concern the war which has just broken out anxious lest any personal friends bo in danger and mission enterprises be seriously seri-ously hampered The fact that all three countries involved are mission Holds and that the prominent cities of all are occupied with a greater or less force of missionaries makes it necessary to look at the situation fairly and candidly In Korea tho Presbyterian board occupies oc-cupies Seoul Fusan and Gensan on the east coast and PyengYang in the interior in-terior Of these Fusau and Gensan are the only places liable to injury from the Japanese fleet But the work in both places is comparatively recent and not so well established as at Seoul The Mithodist board has little established work outside of Seoul and has withdrawn with-drawn all its missionaries from tho interior in-terior stations to that city Tho Society For the Propagation of tho Gospel Church of England has some missionaries at Seoul and Che mulpo In Seoul the missionaries are practically safe being under < the cars of the United States legation and the protection of United States soldiers from tho shipofwar at Chemulpo the port of Seoul So far as Korea is concerned con-cerned t rorcthcta11 ed be no great anxiety Ir In Japan the principal port that may fear attack from tho Chinese fleet is Nagasaki occupied by the Reformed Dutch church the Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church and tho Church Missionary sooiety of England It is probable however how-ever according to tho latest reports that the foreign fleets will protect this city and thus tho missionaries there need fear no attack The same may be said of Yokohama and Tokyo where almost al-most all of the missionary boards are represented Attention will be especially attracted to China for there side from the danger dan-ger of injury from the Japanese fleets there is the still greater danger of injury inju-ry from the hostility of the people The action of the foreign governments in enforcing the neutrality of the ports of Amoy Canton Ningpo ChinKiang Fuchau Shanghai Hankow and Tien tsin all of which are mission stations relieves tho situation very much as there are very few other cities along the coast that might suffer from an attack almost the only one of importance being be-ing Chefu where the Presbyterian church and the China Inland mission hava a large force of laborers and considerable con-siderable property The greatest danger however the missionaries as we have said is not from the Japanese fleets but from the hostility of the Chinese to all foreigners without drawing distinction between Europeans and Americans on the one hand and the hated Japanese Independent Inde-pendent |