PERUVIAN SCANDALS
PULPIT UTTERANCES JUSTIFIED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, August 24. The solicitors of three English Directors of the Peruvian-Amazon Company have written. Bishop Henson, complaining that his sermon in Westminster Abbey on August 4th, denouncing Putumayo, contained baseless charges, particularly the suggestion that the English directors deserved to be arrested and tried. Tho solicitors denied that the directors connived at the outrages, and demanded that Bishop Henson should make amends.
Bishop Henson. has replied thnt )i;s sermon was entirely justified. Ho piloted that when the, directors took over the business from Arana, tluv retained men who, as their own representative subsequently confessed, were murderers,.. pirates, bandits and deserters. They ought, he says, to have hastened to Peru personally and done something, to atone for ..the infamies.'. '"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10703, 26 August 1912, Page 5
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129PERUVIAN SCANDALS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10703, 26 August 1912, Page 5
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