Show I CARDINAL mORONS i IN DISPUTE The Prominent London Divine I i Charges Interference of Catholic Church ASSAILS KING OF BELGIUM C Chune in ige Fl Thai ma I Leopold I OilS ICi to Gain Guill Con Con- itol of Rubber Truth Truth- Mi Md l Dec Dee 1 14 H. Grattan Grattan Guineas D. D D. D of or London foun founder cl cland and amid president of or the East London Missionary Mis lIs In Institute lot for the training of or missionaries le les created a 11 sensation fen at al a meeting in the rm fashionable Memorial MemorIa Presbyterian church today b by Cardinal Gibbons hID haS I stayed t the United States from Interfering Inter Inter- fering In ei-In In the thc Congo dispute The The meeting was held under the auspices of the thc Congo aS association lion tion and D Dr spoke of ot the many horrors that are Ole said to exist there and said paid that King Leopold of Belgium was sas haying having thousands Js of lC natives na na- tives slaughtered annually in order that lt JIG h might l b c more mor wealthy I bf t lip p rim tAA 3 t As jH ld hh ua to u toU a U- c COp ouo lib created a B stir In hl his audi audi- once by making the n assertion that the strong hand hami In this hl his country that prevented prevented pre pre- vent vented tho the government from taking of or the tho conditions c In the Congo Conso was as that of Cardinal Gibbons Culled Called For Voi In an Instant Rev He John Timothy Stone Stono was vas on his feet and asking the speaker to explain and Dr Gult ess said aid ai that he hc wished it understood that It t was his opinion that Cardinal GIbbons Gib- Gib bous bons jons who was vas a champion of ot the Kin King of Belgium did not Know the truth and that his eminence was as misinformed misinform misinform- ed on the subject Before BeCome he could explain further and saying that thai he had to catch a u train to o Washington where he would sec see President Roosevelt Hoose t a and ud Secretary clary Root Hoot he pushed from front the building and jumped Into inlo a u cab On his ills way lo to the thc station statton a I tentative c of or the Press assocIation association asso asso- elation who accompanied him a asked ked for a further explanation of ot his at attack attack nt- nt tack on the cardinal and ho replied The hand hantl of Cardinal Gibbons has lutS been a 11 restraining one in preventing pro un any official Inquiry Into the subject and the cardinals cardinal's action is because he heben docs ben not know Ho gets bets only on specialized e ed information from rom Brussels and he hc heIs Is 19 not permitted to have the Information Information tion that thai would cause him to lo take lake action ac- ac lion tion other than that thai he has Gibbons Replies I I Cardinal Gibbons when shen told of tho he statement by Dr Dl said Mid that It was vas not true that ho was not nol Informed in iii informed In- In formed on oti the subject and added tl ll that it was more thaT likely that he knew far more than Dr Guiness did The cardinal also tal said that thai it il was that there had been a number of ot atrocities In tho time Congo that the country country coun- coun try iry I is one of ot grout area fea but bul that Kin King Leopold was doing all he lie Jw possibly ibl could to chock check them und and to preserve peace lie He saiL amid that time the conditions at atone atone one time were such Much that the Catholic missionaries complained but hul that when the complaint was presented to toI I I tho the king Icing the matter was as investigated and the conditions were changed d |