Strong Protest: Appeal to the Christian Church London, Nov. 30
The London Missionary Society to-day adopted a resolution declaring that military greed in many places in China was requiring the people to plant opium, even against their own wishes; that the habit of opium-smoking was everywhere increasing among officials, scholars and merchants; that areas where opium had never been grown before were producing their quota; that punishment was being inflicted, not on those dealing in the traffic, but on those refusing to do so; and that every means should be taken to call public attention to the grave situation.
The Society also passed a resolution appealing to the Christian Church to unite with missionaries in China to pray that the Church of Ohina may be saved from contamination from the evil.
The resolution was sent to the Foreign Office and the League of Nations.—Reuter.
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