OPIUM IN CHINA!
BRITAIN CONDEMNED BY A WELLINGTON SOCIETY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At the annual meeting of the AntiOpium Society to-night," a resolution was passed: expressing profound grief, shame and humiliation, that notwithstanding China's efforts to free itself from the demoralising effects of opium Britain etill continues, for the sake of money, to cultivate the manufacture and export of the drug to China, and that at the Hague Conference Britain was % onl y nation that refused to agree to tiie prohibition l of opium importation into China and refused to release China from the treaty. The resolution also appeals to the churches to unite in prayer that China may be freed from obligation to further admit opium into that country.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 221, 16 March 1912, Page 5
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123OPIUM IN CHINA! Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 221, 16 March 1912, Page 5
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