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Show PERU FEARS AN INQUIRY Bars Rubber Investigation Investiga-tion Except by a Catholic Cath-olic Mission London, Aug. 3. The Peruvian government gov-ernment will not permit a Protestant mission to go to Putumayo to investigate investi-gate tne alleged atrocities reported by Sir Roger Casement, on behalf of tho British government, to have been perr petratcd on the Indians in that Peruvian Peru-vian rubber-gathering district. At the request of an association which Is raising funds here for that purpose, the British minister at Lima, Charles Des Graz, was Instructed to find what preparations would bo mado for a Protestant mission by the Peruvian Peru-vian government In reply, the minister min-ister cabled the Peruvian minister ot foreign affairs had Informed him, after a conference with the president of the ropubllc, that any committee, with the exception of a Catholic one. would be barred as violating article 4 of the Peruvian constitution. Appeals to Cardinal Gibbons. Washington, Aug. 13. Cardinal Gibbons-has been appealed to by Alfred Al-fred Mitcholl Innes, charge d'affaires of, tho British embassy, to start a movement in this country for sending a Jjtoman Catholic mission Into tho Putumayo rubber district of Peru. The collection of funds has been started in England. Mr. Innes also has written to tho state department suggesting that It lend a hand In the mission work. In spite of the Sir Robert Casement report re-port of the atrocities against the Indian In-dian rubber gatherers of the Putumayo Putu-mayo territory, Mr. Innes says the cruelties have not ceased. The state department Is considering the suggestion, but has not yet communicated com-municated with Cardinal Gibbons. |