WOMEN OF FRANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 December 1918, Page 5

WOMEN OF FRANCE.

VAIN GERMAN APPEAL. "WE SHALL NOT INTERCEDE." London, November 24. Reuter's correspondent at Paris telegraphs that the German women having asked the National Council lof Frenchwomen to intercede with the French Government to mitigate the j terms of the armistice, the National Council has replied as follows: — "No! We shall not intercede with the Government to mitigate the conditions of the armistice. In the course of these tragic years the German wo- j men, certain of victory, remained si- J lent at the crimes of their Govern- ( ment, their army, and their navy. "At the Congress of The Hague, to which we refused to go, the president of the National Council of German Women was invited to protest against the violation of Belgium and the torpedoing of the Lusitania. "She wrote in reply: 'We are at one with our Government and our people. The men who took the responsibility for Germany's decision are as dear to us as those shedding their blood for us on the battlefield.' i "To our indignant protest against [ the deportation of women and young i girls there was no echo from the enemy side. s "Why, therefore, should we intervene today regarding conditions which only have as their object the rendering impossible of any resumption of the war?"