CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 667

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That this Meching-heving head pum Mor Elizabeth Andrew, and Dr. Kate C. Bushnell, the deeply interesting - account of their investigations made personally in China, Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and Indice, into the facks relating to the use of Opium by the people of these Countries; and being firmly convinced that the Opium Habet is both & Meral and Social evil of the gravest nature-regards with the deepest concern the convection of this Country with the Opium Traffic, involving, as it does, national complicity in the great wrong inflicted upon umvilling peoples. connary to morality and righhousness. Ilus Mooting therefore, calls for the immediach romieval of the Opium Curse, the suppression of the Opium Trade between India and China, the placing of the retail sale in Indice, as is already the case,

already the case in England, under ( restrictions, dangerous prison, and clirects that copics of this Resolution be sent to the Prime Minister, and to Her Majesty's Secretaries of Stack for Foreign Affairs. For India, and for the Colonies.

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