The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-12

London. April 19.-(S:25 a. mi-The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspond ent gives an interview with Third Officer Llewellyn of the British steamer liar palyce who was on the bridge in com mand of the steamer at the time the vessel was sunk by an explosion in the North sea.
 Suddenly | heard a tremendous eN- plosion." Llewellyn said and the ship heeled oyer. I looked down her side and saw a tremendous hole as if the half side of the ship had been blown. The Harpalyce settled fast
 'I could see no trace of submarine, but two minutes afterward I thought l saw 8 periscope."
 The captain of the Dutch steamer Eliza : beth related the following story:
 in war She depicted the horrors of the conflict now waging in Europe and the burden Il imposed on the women Of the warning nations Noth- ing more sublime was ever uttered in this city than her tribute to the mother love that gave herself to the rearing of her boy from the cradle to man hood, and nothing more scathing was ever uttered than her denunciation of the sacrifice of that boy in the attempt to uphold the fallacious doctrine Of the divine right of kings.
 pr. Shaw's denunciation of the prohi- bition party was terrific. She declared that every upward step the prohibition party had made had come through the persistent efforts of the women, yet she stated that in every instance throughout the United States where the women had called on the prohibi- ton party they had been shamefully bepayed. "I have made one speech i'll savor of the prohibition party said Dr. Shaw, and if God forgives me, | will never make another.' She said that women were nearly all prohibi tionists and that she had no fight to make on the cause of prohibition, but she said the time had come when the women of this country would refuse to be used as lever and that they would ask square deal in reward for their efforts.
 Theatre Crowded
 Long before the meeting was called to order the theatre was filled to It's capacity. The city authorities had to interfere to prevent overcrowding and several hundred people were turned v mngham Equal Suffrage association, presided ~and introduced the speaker. The Rev Willis G. Clark, rector of St. Andrews Episcopal church, opened the meeting with prayer In presenting the speaker. Mrs. Shell paid a splendid tribute to pr. Shaw's work in the cause of equal suffrage and declared she was 'the greatest woman in the world"
 In her address, Dr. Shaw dealt large ly in fundamentals. She stated tha- the nation was not a republic when only half it's citizens could vote, and that the present form of government was the worst kind of an aristocracy from the fact tiiat one half of it's cit, izens had no voice in it's affairs. She ridiculed the idea that if women were given the ballot that ignorance would be sent to the polls.
 Speaking of her work in the slums of Boston, pr. Shaw stated that she had learned the real meaning of the Lord S prayer when it said, give Us this day our daily bread and that it was use less to talk virtue to a starving girl She told of the condition of the work ing girls and the temptations that be- set her and that il would be through the medium of the womans ballot that these conditions would be changed.
 Women's Qualifications
 In referring to the qualifications of a voter, Dr. Shaw stated that under the