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Atlanta Negro Goes To Peace Conference. Rev. R. H. Singleton, pastor of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church, left Atlanta Wednesday for New York, where he will sail on Friday for France to attend the peace conference. Singleton is one of ten American negroes who were appointed to make the trip to Europe at a meeting of the Equal Rights congress recently held in Washington, D.C., when 215 delegates from every state in the union were present. The special delegation of ten will confer with President Wilson and his American conferees on the future of the German colonies in Africa. They will ask first that colonies not be returned to Germany and that they be played under the protectorate of some allied state in order to obtain the best development of the colonies. Second, that the conference assist in the resumption of the missionary work of the African M. E. church, which has been practically dead for 1 the past four years, except in America. Third, that a general discussion of labor conditions all over the world be held with the idea of more harmonious relations between all races. The delegation will present to the peace conference data and information in regard to the administration of affairs of the African colonists by Germany, which will support their request that the colonies be put under a protectorate instead of being returned to Germany. Rev. Singleton, who has been signally honored, has been given a leave of absence from his church until March 1. The leave will be extended by the church if the pas-tor finds that he must remain away longer.

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