Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — Conger Lauds the Missionaries. [ARTICLE]

Conger Lauds the Missionaries.

"Dr. Ament is the most lied about! man in China, unless it is myself. The stories of looting by missionaries aacfe their collecting indemnities by force are absolutely false. The missionaries acted with nobility and heroism during the Pekin siege, fighting bravely alongside the soldiers and the rest of us. Everything that bore a foreign name that could be reached by the Boxers, supported as they were by the government, was destroyed. The policy of the United States will be to maintain the integrity of China.” These are the statements of Major Edwin H. Conger, United States minister to China, who arrived at San Francisco Thursday on the Japanese liner Nippon Manx on a six months’ leave of absence.