ESPERANTO

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 August 1921, Page 5

ESPERANTO

IMPORTANT CONFERENCE

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PRAGUE, Aug. 9. Two thousand seven hundred men and women delegates from forty nationalities, including official representatives from Belgium, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Saxony, Ukraine, and Jugoslavia are attending an esperanto conference. Dr. Nitobe, the League of Nations representative, said no international subject was more important than an international languaae. The abolition of war was fheflr chief objective.-. He anticipated the period wLen the peace seekers of all nations would hnd a common language. The German' esperantists were particularly wrrraly welcomed, Britisher^ gathering at the stations and-cheering them on joiue. A national costume ball formed a mest impressive and picturesque scene