WOMAN'S OBSESSION

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 165, 15 July 1938, Page 5

WOMAN'S OBSESSION

STONED KING'S CAR.

HER PEACE CAMPAIGN.

WATERFRONT INCIDENT. (Special.—By Air Mall.) , LONDON, June 25. A glove weighted with stone was thrown at the Royal car as the King drove along the front at Weymouth this week after hie visit to the Fleet. The missile hit the bonnet of the car and bounced off into the road. A policeman took the name and address of a woman who admitted she had thrown the glove. She wae Mrs. Helen Willard, of Weymouth, mother of two children. People in the crowd, astounded, ehouted: "Oh, you silly girl; what did you do that for?" Mrs. Willard said after the incident that inside ,the glove was a letter to the King asking him to grant her an interview, and to sign a peace petition she has been circulating in Weymouth. "I did not feel a bit overwrought and upset about it," ehe said. "I am now eeriously thinking of leaving home and taking up nursing again, so that I can get? money to carry on my mission for peace. I was not allowed to present niv letter to the King at the railway station when he leit. How else can I draw attention to my work to get all women to support me in my 'Ho more war' campaign?"

Recently the police were obliged to remove a banner inscribed: 'Calling all women. Stop war" from the Weymouth Cenotaph, which Mrs. Willard had tied to the base. In her letter to the King she said she wanted the word "Peace" displayed on all Cenot-.phe in the land.