THE GREAT CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 215, 10 September 1908, Page 4

THE GREAT CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

MORE PROTESTANT PROTESTS

BLOODSHED FEARED

[press association.] (Received Sept. 9, 11.3 p.m.)

LONDON, Sept. 9

A meeting of the London Council of fifty-one United Protestant Societies, presided over by Mr C. Me Arthur, M.P., resolved to urge the Government to forbid the procession of the' Host in connection with the Eucharistic Conference through the public thoroughfares. The meeting telegraphed a petition to King Edward, and sent four hundred Peers and1 Members of the House of Commons a message inviting them to-use their influence to prevent the procession, which they feared might cause a riot, and even bloodshed.

- Mr McArthur and others, in letters published in the newspapers, describe' the procession and public adoration of the Host as an attempt to create a precedent for similar processions in all' the great towns of the Empire, thus leading to religious feuds. 4