CARDINAL MOHAN AND SAMOA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11486, 20 January 1903, Page 5

CARDINAL MOHAN AND SAMOA.

"WORSE THAN THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES."

THE CHARGES REITERATED.

United Pro*i Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 19th, 9.4 a-m.) SYDNEY, January 19. Cardinal Moran said he had been censured for comparing the proceedings of the Allies and their native auxiliaries in Samoa to fcha Armenian outrages. Possibly, be said, he had errfdin this comparison, aaad he should probably have Maid that the proceedings were far worse than the Armeiiian outrages, for the reason that two Great Powers were responsible for them, and they wtra perpetrated with a semblance of legality in tike name .of civilisation, and under the mask of justice. What could , bs stronger, he asks, than the final and authoritative decision of King Oacar, as arbitrator, that the action of the American and British worships was illegal and unwarranted, and that the wanton cruelty wua wrong. He warmly denied tite allegation thathe had imputed all the calamities of the war to the British Admiralty and the officers engaged in it. / In support of his charges against the Protestant missionaries, he quoted the reply of the Tanu chiefs, who, when asked why they destroyed the Catholic churches and priests' residences, said: "Our white teachem urged us to do so."