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and voicing nifillar contthouta,
Ci
Some antiwar
Meetings were held in ne4knal Green Baptist chapel,
but this in the only record of tleeting3 being hold in
churches or chapels. Nor were any anti-war ronolutiono
passed by congrogatio. aa or local uieatinCa.
Before war broke out the Free Church Council had
reriatarod a mild protest. But no resolution could be
passed at the annual meeting held in March 1904 at
Shetfield$ Hugh Price Bugher was anxious that the war
should not be discussed at all,
(3)
(2)
the president of
the C uncjl wac a Wesleyan war ad wocato and the Executive
Committee passed a revolution deciding not to introduce
officially "any motion about the war for the sake of
peace and harmony*"
(4)
The peaceprarty represented by
Clifford, Hocking, Hirst Hollowell and A, E, Davies,
circulated a petition calling for peace terns which
respected the indepednenco of the republics # but they
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(1) lbid1 12th January 1900.
(2) New
s 5th July i900%
(3) norothou Prico IIugbeog Op citj p. 573.
(4+) War ar innt ttar1 16th March 1900.