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only about four rentiona of the Fashoda lasuo in about
four hundred resolutions, from the Peace Society$ Rochdale
und District Mothodiat Council, a Quarterly meeting of
the Society of `reýnda and at a Ipswich meeting where
Ellen Robinuon a Quaker said that the dispute with France
ought t+e submitted to arbitration. The Bishop of
Norwich dis-. . rood "what would become of our colonies and
our territories all over the owrld7"
The ruakern were divided over the ) achoda iecuo, but
the Meeting for Sufferings at the request of Ellen Robinson$
issued a minute hoping for a peaceful anttlemont.
The Friends also disapproved of the slaughter of the
Dervishes at Otridurmuu and the Peace Committee expreaced its
appreciation of the 11.1'se who voted aCainat the Parliamentary
grant to TCitchcner in June 1899"
The Church of England predictably supported the
Government. The C. ti, in particular had not forgotten
the idoa of a Gordon Memorial Mission, formulated in i883.
General Hut cchinson spoke to Kitchener in November on
i1) F. a. $3/1? 3ä.
(2) Friends 11th LLovembor 1898.
(3) Society of Friends SZS. ? knute Book of Ponce Co ittoo
1888-1900, minutes of meeting hold 6th July 1899.
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