"LAW, NOT WAR."
—*—- WOMEN DEMONSTRATE IN HYDE PARK. PEACEMAKERS' PILGRIMAGE. (8? CABLI—PMSB ASSOCUTIOH—OOPYBIOHt.) (BEUTZB'S TELEGBAHB.) LONDON, June 20. Mostly dressed in blue tabards, crusaders' cloaks and sandals, though some wore blue cloaks and armlets, on which was the device of a white dove carrying an olive branch, and bearing banners inscribed, "Law, Not War," a- 1sands of women of all ages and classes, forming a Peacemakers' Pilgrimage, lent mediaeval aspect to Hyde Park. There was bright sunshine for the culmination of the march, which started a month ago from the remotest districts. The walkers amassed volume as they approached London, dispensing propaganda en route, until every country in the Kingdom was represented by a forest of banners in Hyde Park, where a resolntion was carried by acclamation on the numerous platforms urging the Government to settle international disputes by arbitration, and to take a lead St the League Disarmament Conference to show that Britain does not intend to appeal to force. if ' 1 •
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18724, 22 June 1926, Page 9
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