CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 100

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SUPPRESSION OF THE INDO-CHINESE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

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To the Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Ric? Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Jacob 2) JUL 09

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We, the undersigned Ministers, Office-bearers and Mem-

bers of the various Churches in Scotland, resident in

Edinburgh, gathered there at the Annual Ecclesiastical Meet-

ings, or resident in other parts of the country, desire re-

spectfully to draw your attention to the urgency of bring-

ing to a more speedy end than has yet been arranged for,

the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic.

We are grateful for what has been done by our Government

and chiefly by Lord Morley, Lord Crewe, and yourself, during

the last three years in response to the heroic efforts

of China. We are glad to see that the late Shanghai Inter-

national Commission has characterised these efforts as

being carried on with "unswerving sincerity". But we feel

that as a Christian nation, professing a high moral stan-

dard, we have not, in comparison with non-Christian China,

done all we should, and as quickly as we should, in this

fateful business. We specially regret to note that the

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