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Show GEM, FUTON ON WARPATH HE WILL SUE ARCHBISHOP IRELAND IRE-LAND FOR LIBEL. Indignant at Stories Circulated That He Desecrated Catholic Churches In the Philippines. Kansas City, Nov. 1. A special to the Star from Albuquerque. N. M., says: General Frederick Funston, who is en route home with the mustered-out Twentieth Kansas regiment, has wired his Topeka attorneys, Gleed, Ware & Gleed, to bring proceedings against Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul for criminal libel because of statements attributed at-tributed to the archbishop in a recent interview. General Funston also instructed his lawyers to begin criminal and civil prosecutions against tne iionuor, a Catholic paper of San Francisco, which first printed the story. In a recent interview in Chicago, Archbishop Ireland was quoted as saying say-ing that General Funston had been charged with looting Catholic churches in the Philippines. The charges alleged al-leged to have been referred to by the archbishop were made by the editor of the Monitor sdon after the landing of the Kansas troops in San Francisco. The Monitor stated, it is said, that General Funston had taken two magnificent mag-nificent chalices from a certain Catholic Catho-lic church in the Philippines, and had sent them home to his wife. Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland, in his Chicago interviews, inter-views, was quoted as calling upon General Gen-eral Funston to deny the truth of the article and sue the editor of the Monitor Moni-tor for libel or the public would be obliged, against its will, to believe him guilty of the criminal acts of which he had been accused. General Funston is highly indignant at the accusation, and says he will prosecute the matter vigorously. He intends, he says, to put a stop forever to the malicious stories put in circulation circula-tion regarding him. General Funston says that he not only refrained from desecrating houses of worship in Manila, but that while colonel of the Kansas regiment issued a positive order prohibiting the looting or mutilation or cnurcft buildings. He supplemented this with verbal instruction instruc-tion to his company commanders to see that the order was rigidly enforced. HAS NOT HEARD OF IT. Lawyer Gleed Knows Nothing of Funston's Law Suit. Topeka, Kan., Nov. 1. G. S. Gleed. senior member of the law firm of Gleed, Ware & Gleed, stated tonight that his firm had received absolutely no intimation from General Funston of any purpose to begin any legal proceedings proceed-ings against Archbishop Ireland. Mr. Gleed stated that he had simply received receiv-ed a personal telegram from General Funston. requesting him to ascertain if Archbishop Ireland had been correctly correct-ly quoted, General Funston at the same time expressing the opinion that the statements attributed to the archbishop arch-bishop would be found to be incorrect. Mr. Gleed added his surmise that General Funston desired this information informa-tion to enable him to form a reply to the archbishop in the event that the alleged interview should prove authentic. authen-tic. IRELAND IS SURPRISED. Archbishop .Denies That He Has Made Libelous Statements. St. Paul. Minn., Nov. 1. Archbishop Ireland appeared somewhat surprised this evening when he heard that General Funston Fun-ston of Kansas was reported as about to sue him for libel on account of statements attributed to him in a Chicago interview. He said he had made no charges against General Funston. but had, in conversation, conversa-tion, expressed the opinion that the statement state-ment of the San Francisco paper charging charg-ing the general with having taken a priest's robe from a Philippine church should be denied by General Funston at once, lest a failure to deny leu to a wrong impression. The archbishop admitted the substantial accuracy of the Chicago interview, bur. was not willing to admit that he had made any libelous statements. Lsarning English. The Jesuits always adapt themselves promptly to Providential circumstances. circum-stances. As an example of thi3 characteristic char-acteristic trait of the zealous Order. Chaplain McKinnon. has a photograph showing some sixty Jesuit Fathers, i i . II III IWI III! IP i, . . in many of them white-headed, gathered outside the corridor of their residen- in Manila, studying- their A. B. C's in. the English language, upon finding that the Philippine island had come into the possession of the Americans. |