THE OPIUM TRADE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14324, 14 October 1910, Page 5

THE OPIUM TRADE.

A VIGOROUS PROTEST. Per Press Association. DUNBDIN, Oct. 13. . the Baptist Conference to-day the debate 011 a. motion relating- to ■,.£ °P luni traffic was resumed. Some merence of opinion was expressed a 5 to the wording of the motion, which, was originally to the effect that the union place on record its sense of the nuge disgrace attaching to the nation tnrough its connection with the opium traffic, and regretting that Birtam still held China, to the Treaty of lientsm and compelled her to receive Indian opium; and hoping that Cliina pouid be offered instant freedom from the bondage of the treaty. The motion was slightly amended, and was then adopted.

. motion was also carried comuiendng to the attention of the churches t f C ' + i nie S? r ', a ]. the British members ot the World's Missionary Conference, urging all churches to call public attention to the shame of the Indian government's monopoly a-nd continnin- SIS on. treaty rights, where- ■ , l ma was still forced (against repeated protests and heroic sacrifices, n against undoubted rights as a coatiaiw