WOMEN AND PEACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 30 April 1915, Page 7

WOMEN AND PEACE.

MEETING IN HOLLAND. f DnITRU 1 KKix» ASSOCIATION 1 London, April 29. Mr I!. McKenna, Home Secretary, refused 150 women’s applications to attend the Peace Conference. He issued permits to a carefully selected twenty-four. Remembering the danger of a country besot with foreign spies, the delegates were warned to use the most extreme caution and against imprudently giving information. No delegates departed, communication with Holland having been

stopped. : Doctor Alletta Jacobs, in her opening address to the conference, said |that if men considered the economic results of the war, the women considered the grief, pain, misery. Women’s votes would enable international disputes to be referred to arbitration. The delegates included representatives of belligerent and neutral nations

General Deure expressed the opinion that the conclusion of the war would bring a durable peace, and declared that womanly feeling was above race hatred.

The German delegate said her coun-try-women stretched; out the hands of friendship in international love, a

sentiment which was reciprocated hy the British delegate.

The Hungarian delegate said women would be unworthy of the coming franchise unless they proved they were doing something to abolish the war. The Italian delegate declared that the honors of war were approaching her country. Men were starving owing to the stoppage of trade, and demanding to he sent to the front, where they were certain of food. Even Italian peace societies had declared in favour of war.