WOMEN’S PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144668, 30 April 1915, Page 4

WOMEN’S PEACE CONFERENCE.

NO BRITISH DELEGATES. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, April 29. The- delegates at the Women’s Peace Conference included representatives of l*?Ui£erenfc and neutral nations. Doctor AJletta Jacobs, in her opening address to the conference, said that mon considered the economic results of the war, the women considered the grief, pain and misery. Women’s rotes would enable international disputes to bo reform! to arbitration. OnlegatQS expressed the opinion that the conclusion of the.war would bring a durable pence, and declared that womanly feeling was above race haired. The Gorman delegate said her countrywomen stretched out the hands of friendship in international love, a sentiment which was reciprocated by the British delegate. The Hungarian deleagio said women would bo unworthy of the coming franchise} unless they proved tliev were lining something to abolish the* war. The Italian delegate declared that the horrors of war were approaching her country. .Men wove starving owing to the stoppage of trade, and demanding to be sent, to the front, whore they were certain of food. Even Italian peace societies had declared in favour of war. Mr. U .M'Kemia. Home Secretary, refused LX) women's applications to attend the Peace Conference. He issued, permits to a carefully selected twentyfour. Remembering' the danger of a country beset with foreign spies, the delegates were warned to use the most extreme caution and against imprudently giving information. No delegates departed, communication with Holland iiaving been stopped.