The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-15
WOmen's Congress Speaks fOl
Every Warning Power.
Officials of European Nations
Agree to WOmen's Plan.
WANT UNITED STATES To LEAD
Groups of ENJOYS Conferred
With Every Power.
Three Neutrals willing: United
States Undecided Still.

New York. Oct 15.-Warring
Europe has authorized the leadlng
zvomen of the world to say that 1t
Dorts a neace conference of neutral
nations if it is led by the United states
Three neutral nations have agreed;
Two are considering. Inc Ohlteu
states has not decided. -
rho authorized official of every ma
ton now at war authorizea tIlIs $40 See : 9
Trerlt bv the International congress %
women ar The Hague, AFTER an du-
.horized delegate of the congress CON
ferrcd with him.
l-i-ese Facts are contained IN a state
wont iseued here today by the inter
national committee OF women LoI
Permanent Peace, with copy o. 1 II
Hae.,s Womel's Congress hhdhlieSt
"a tFr governments OF. Europe ana th'
president of the United Stales' az
In thei- joint report the LEADING
members of these two deIeSauoIlS
,lni.c in stating that the evidence any
n assurances given them have convinced
them that the belligerents would not
consider such a conference unIrien ZEN ~
and that the neutrals would not pe
unwilling to act, II 1lrsl assureu VI
American cooperation
The delegates were not at liberty 10
give names or nationality OF the toi
einn offices specifically quoted put IN
several instances they quote yer pat!Lil
INV country would not find anything
unfriendly in such action by the neu-
trails" are the words credited 70 tne
foreign minister of one great pelllser-
ont NV government would place no
obstacle in the way of its institution,
said the minister of an opposing ma
ton ''What are the neutralS WaieinS
for?'' said a third, whose name, II Is
stated, ranks high, not only IN MS own
country. but for all the world.
ENJOYS Received.
r,.. o,,,,o,,s were received by the fol-
lowing, among others: 80 1,oraion
Minister Sir Edward Grey, IN Lon IIoI
Reichskanzler Won BethInahn -I1oI
VEG ana Foreign Minister Won Jasow'
=" Pr;ne Minister Stuergkh, Foreign
Minister Burian, in VIENNA Ihiiie
Minister TisZa, in Budapest.
Pr;rne Minister Salandra and For
eien Minister Sonino, in Rome:
ePriroe Minister Viviani and Foreign
Minister Declasse, in Paris.
Foreign Minister d'Avignon' IN
Havre. -..ofs in petro-
grad. ,rasen+a+ives
of neutral governments:
PriToe Minister Cort van der Linden
ana Foreign Minister Loudon, in The
Prime Minister zahle and Foreign
Minister Scavenius, in Copenhagen.
King Haakon, Prime Minister knuo-
sen Foreign Minister Ihlen, ana by
Merrs. LoveIand, Aarstad, CASHIERS
and Jahren, the four presidents VI eAi0
storthing in Chr1stianla. :,
Foreign Minister Waiee'
Stockholm. r; NEin;s-
ter Hoffman, in Berne.
President Wilson and secretary OF
State Lansing, in washington.
Reports of ENJOYS.
While in Rome, the delegation went
inofficially-that is to say, without d
mandate from the congress- TO an
audience with the pope ana cdroilldl
secretary of state.
The international Congress of Wom-
en-. which met at The Hague last April,
appointed two groups or ENJOYS one
to the belligerent governments, and
TO Holland and Switzerland; the other
10 Russia and the Scandinavian coun-
tries. The reports of these embassies
form the basis for the announcement
issued today here ana in Amsterdam.
The manifesto is signed by DIR.
Macmillan, of Great Britain; Nine.
Rosika Schwimmer, of Australian
gary; Prof. Emily Greene Balch, of
Wellesley college, and Miss Jane Ad-
DAMS of Hull House, Chicago. Miss
Adams is president of the interna-
tional committee; Miss Macmillan,
secretary; Dr. Jacobs and Nine.
Schwimmer, vice chairmen-
Fight OF Diplomat.
The manifesto says IN part:
I'VE heard much the same words
spoken in Downing street as those
spoken in Wilhelmstrasse, IN Vienna
as in Petrograd. in Budapest as in the
Havre where the Belgians have their
temporary government.
You are right" said one minister.
'sthat it would be of the greatest i'm
portance to finish the fight by early
negotiations rather than by further
military efforts, which would result in
more and more destruction and ire
parable loss" yours IS the Sanest pro-
posal thai has been brought to this
office in the last six months" said the
prime minister of one of the larger
countries
1t has been argued that it is not the
time at present to start such a process
of negotiation The answer we bring
is that every delay makes more diff
ficu1t the beginning of. negotiations,
more nations become involved, and
the situation becomes more compli-
Gated that when at times in the course
of war such a balance was struck, the
neutrals were unprepared to act.
AS to the actual military situation
however, we quote a remark made to
us by a foreign minister of one of the
belligerent powers: Neither side is to-
day strong enough to dictate terms
and neither side is so weakened that
it has to accept humiliating terms