SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY'S PLEA UNAVAILING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13745, 7 April 1915, Page 5

SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY'S PLEA UNAVAILING.

SOCIALISTS AND .THE WAR,

April 7, 0.15 ■ a.m.)

London, April 6

The home defence volunteer movement, mcstly for men over military age, has enrolled 390,000, and the number is increasing by thousands weekly.

' Captain Ha swelle, of the Highland Light.lnfantry, the holder of the Olympic quarter mile record in 1908; was killed in action.

A number of .leading scientists support Sir William Ramsay, who xmavailingly. appealed to the Government to declare cotton contraband. The "Morning Post" states that Germany received 200,000 bales of cotton in January and February %

The Norwich Independent Labour Conference discussed the war. Prominent Labourites refrained , from speaking. I Mr Ramsay Mac Donald explained that French Socialists viewed the war differently from the Independent Labour Party. It was-no xise talking at present about stopping the war.

The Women's International Council of Socialists and Labour Organisations, held at Berne, was marked by the cordial relations between the British and German delegates. A resolution called for a speedy end of the war by a peace expitaing Belgium's wrongs wrciiout humiliating any nation, and recognising the integrity of large and small nations.