WOMAN’S MIGHTY PROTEST.
Massed Pilgrimage To London.
“ LAW SHOULD REPLACE WAR.”
By Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Juno 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 19.
The advance guard of thousands of women, comprising mothers, sweethearts and wives, who marched from all parts of England, Scotland, and AVales, reached London on Friday night, in preparation for the great Peace Pageant, to be held in Hyde Park to-day. Women 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, ' the leaders will present a resolution already adopted by countless towns and villages, to the effect that law should replace war in the settlement of international disputes. This will bo supported by famous men and women, then with massed opinion behind them, the pilgrim peacemakers hope to bring pressure to boar on the Government to take such a lead in the proposed Disarmament Conference, that war will bo rendered impossible.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 June 1926, Page 9
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