After making all allowances for exaggerations, inevitable in the dire Jeivcumstances_of a war, there mained, His Grace asserted, only too much cause for our sense of dismay and horror, and after all, in. terms fof human suffering, hundreds were as Jeloquent as thousands.
Referring to the protest made by the Archbishop of Tokyo regarding his presence at the meeting, Long said: "I must needs have special relations "and friendship with Japanese Christians, I know that many of them are distressed by my being here this evening. I wonder, indeed, how far they know the facts as have reached us in this country. But even between friends, conslence cannot be silenced, and conscience forbids "us to maintain sil-
"We make our appeal," the Primate added, "to the Government and people of Japan' to restrain the actions fof their naval and military' commanders in China and, thus, vindicate their place among civilized nations."
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