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Show COMPLAINT AGAINST KURDS. American Schools Plundered and Burned by Fanatics. Boston. A complaint from the officials of-ficials of tho American school at Van, eastern Turkey, against tho treatment treat-ment by tho Turkish officials and tho Kurds, hns been received by tho American board of commissioners for foreign missions. Tho school officials stato that notwithstanding not-withstanding tho ostensible friendship friend-ship of a governor general, a man of unusual Btrongth, tho school hns boon plundered and burned by tho Kurds In tho presenco of Turkish officials and soldiers. Fruit trees havo been cut down nnd brcadstuffs purchased by American missionaries for tho American orphnnago havo been hold hy tho Turkish government for moro 'than four montliB. |