Government is Urged to Take Action London, June 23.
A call to Christians throughout the world far united prayers on behalf of China on July 9 was made in a letter to the press, signed by the Archbishop of York and twenty Bishops, which was published today.
The letter urges that July 9 be known as "Chinese Sunday." It emphasises that since July 1937, 1,000,000 Chinese have been killed and 60,000,000 rendered homeless.
"This call for prayer," it declares, "is a call for financial and material help to China, for China's freedom, for strength and courage for her suffering millions, for missionaries working in danger and deprivation, and for ourselves, that we be shown our duty to Christian ideals."
The signatories to the letter include Rev. Sidney. Malcolm Berry, Secretary to the Federal Council of Free Churches, Rev. John Scott Lidgett, member of the London School Board, and Rev. Archibald Main, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical history in the University of Glasgow.
The National Committee of an International Peace Campaign today adopted a resolution urging the Gov-economic action forthwith to restrain the aggressor (Japan), without waiting for prior, explicit assurance of what other Governments may say or may do.
They also demanded that the whole problem of Japanese aggression should be taken up with Members of the League of Nations and Signatories of the Nine-Power Pact.
A meeting of Conservatives was" held in the House of Commons last night. At its conclusion, the particupants merely. declared that it was' a private meeting and declined to make more than the laconic and formal statement that a, Foreign Affairs Committee of Government supporters met and Mr. Adrian Mareing, Conservative member for q Preston, reviewed the situation in the Far East. Afterwards, they declared, the position in Tientsin was discussed.—Reuter. 1
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