THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8523, 28 August 1907, Page 5

THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS.

Received August 27, 7.30 a.m. BERLIN, August 26. A resolution adopted by the Socialist Congress further recommended that workers, with the ■assistance of the international I bureau, should do their utmost to prevent any threatened war. The methods of action must vary according to the political conditions of the different peoples. If an outbreak occurred it would be their duty to serve so as to bring it to a "termination, and to utilise the •economic crisis created by war to rouse the masses against armaments and hasten the downfall of "the capitalist classes. Another resolution introduced by the French and Spanish delegates was -adopted protesting against the Morocco expedition. The next congress will be held in Copenhagen.

A D3ASTJG DSVOBBE HKASJSS. Received August 27, 7.42 a.m. LONDON, August 26. The Daily Telegraph states that pjlpit eulogies were made throughout the State of New York, yesterday, on a divorce' law which becomes operative next Sunday, and which is expected to reduce divorce by threefourths. It enacts that married persons convicted of infidelity shall be subject to six months' imprisonment or a fine of £SO, or both. Mr Jesse Phillips, a young lawyer, is author of the law.