THE CONGRESS PROCESSIONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13748, 10 September 1908, Page 5

THE CONGRESS PROCESSIONS.

PROTESTANT PROTESTS. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 9. At a meeting of the London Council of fifty-one united Protestant societies, Mr C. Arthur, M.P.. presiding, it was resolved to urge the Government to , forbid the "Procession of the Host'" in connection with the Eucharist Conference to traverse public thoroughfares. The Council telegraphed a petition to King Edward, and sent to 400 peers and commoners a message inviting them to use their influence to prevent the procession, which they feared might cause a riot and even bloodshed. ''< Mr Me Arthur and others, m letters' published in the newspapers, describe the procession as an attempt to create a precedent for similar processions in all tho great towns of the Empire, which would lead to religious feuds.