WAR ON WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 June 1926, Page 5

WAR ON WAR

' HYDE PARK PAGEANT.

.Australian and N.Z. Cable Association).

LONDON, June 19., The advance guard of thousands of women, comprising mothers, sweethearts and wives, who have marched from all parts of England, Scotland and Wales, reached London on Friday night in preparation for a great Peace Pageant to be held in Hyde Park to-day. They have been arriving' from all points of the compass, some having marched more than two hundred miles. Every town and village en route has swelled the numbers. - :

At Hyde Park, the leaders will present a resolution which has already been adopted by countless towns and villages, to the effect that law should replace war in the sett ment of international disputes. This resolution will be supported by famous men and women. Then, with massed opinion behind them, tfie Pilgrim Peacemakers hope to bring pressure to beai’ on the Government to take such a lead in the proposed Disarmament Conference that war will be rendered impossible. A PICTURESQUE SCENE (Recd. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 20. Mostly dressed in blue tabards, Crusaders’ cloaks and sandals, others in blue cloaks and armlets whereon was the device of a white dove, carrying olive branches, and bearing banners inscribed, “Law, Not War,” thousands of women of all ages and .classes, forming a peacemakers’ pilgrimage, lent a medieval 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 amassing volume as they approached London, dispensing propaganda en route, until every County in the Kingdom was represented by banners in Hyde Park, where a resolution carried by ■acclamation on numerous platforms, urging the Government to settle international disputes by arbitration, and take the lead at the League disarmament conference, to show Britain does not intend to appeal to force.