Women and war.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13672, 30 April 1915, Page 7

Women and war.

— » THE PEACE CONGREvSS. (London Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, April 29. Mr McKenna refused 150 women's applications to attend the Peace Conference at the Hague, but issued, permits to a carefully selected twenty-four. Remembering the danger m a- country beset with foreign spies, he warned them against imprudently giving 1 information. No delegates departed, as communication with Holland was stopped. Dr Aletta Jacobs, m her opening address at the conference, said men considered the economic results of the war, and women ' considered the grief, pain, and misery. Women's votes would enable international disputes to bo referred to arbitration. The delegates included representatives of belligerent and neutral nations. The general desire expressed was that at the conclusion of the war a durable peace would be arrived at. It was declared that womanly feeling was above race hatred. A German delegate said her countrywomen stretched out the hands of friendship and international love— a sentiment reciprocated by a British delegate. A Hungarian delegate said women would be unworthy of the coming franchise unless they proved they were doing something to aholish the *war. An Italian delegate declared that the horrors of war were approaching her country. Men were starving owing to the stoppage of trade, and demanding to be sent to the front, where they were at least certain of food. Even the Italian Peace Society had declared iv favor of war.