MARCH ON LONDON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 21 June 1926, Page 5

MARCH ON LONDON

PEACE PAGEANT MOTHERS, SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Juno 19. An advance guard of thousands of wornen, comprising mothers, sweethearts and wives, who marched from all parts of England, Scotland and Wales, reached London on Friday night in preparation for the great peace pageant, to he held at Hyde Park today. They are arriving from all points of the compass, some having marched more than two hundred miles. Every town and village en route swelled the numbers at Hyde Park. Leaders will present a resolution already 1 adopted Try countless towns and villages to the effect that law should replace war in the settlement of international disputes. This will be supported by famous men and women and then with massed, opinion behind them, the pilgrim peacemakers hope to bring pressure to bear on the Government to take such a, lead in the proposed disarmament conference, that war will be rendered impossible. GREAT GATHERING IN HYDE PARK LONDON, June 20. Mostly dressed in blue tabards, crusaders’ cloaks and sandals,, and others in blue cloaks and armlets,- on which was a device of a white dove carrying an olive branch, hearing banners inscribed “law, not war," thousands of women of all ages and classes, forming a peacemakers’ pilgrimage, lent a med/ eval aspect to Hyde Park/ , There was bright sunshine for the culmination of a march which started n month ago from the remotest districts, the walkers amassing volurpe as they approached London and dispensing propaganda en route, until every country in the Kingdom was represented by a forest of banners in Hyde Park, where a resolution was carried by acclamation on numerous platforms urging the Government to settle international disputes by arbitration and to take the lead at the League Disarmament Conference to show that -Britain does not intend to appeal to force.