Anti-War Delegates Hear Chinese Views: Lord Marley Tells of Stealthy Gathering How delegates from the World Committee Against War succeeded, despite the official ban, in holding Saturday at an' undisclosed Shanghai address a secret confer-fence of some 60. representatives from various parts of China, after a stealthy overnight assembly and vigil by the light of candles Stock in bottles, was described in Monday, night by Lord Marley, lengthy statement to the press
who took the chair at the meeting:
Tu face of the local authorities! attitude, said Lord Marley, it had Been found necessary to abandon the international conference representing all Pacific countries, though A conference of United States repre-tentatives took place in New York fon September 29., Saturday's, meet ing, which was "perfectly legal, had to be Kept secret because the danger of arrest undergone by all Chinese "attending. Between 50 and 100 who had attended meeting in support of the Anti-War Conference lid already been arrested, and they heard that one had been shot, declared Lord Marley, while for' ture had been applied to others in other to extract names and addresses.
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