Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-28
German and English Repre-
SentativeS Greet Each Other
as Sympathetic Victims of
World Calamity,
HUNGER is DRIVING
ITALY INTO STRUGGLE
Eloquent Addresses Are Direct
ed Toward Finding Some
Basis Upon Which Perma-
nent Peace May Be Had.
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The Hague April % (via London.
1910 p. m.l-Forty-two delegates
from the United States to the inter-
national womans peace congress, who
had been held up on the steamer
Noordam because Of Great Britain's
order stopping traffic to Holland, ar
rived here today.
The delegates reached The Hague
in time for the opening meeting of
the congress tonight, at which an
earnest desire to bring the worlds
war To conclusion and insure dur
able peace WIS strongly expressed by
delegates belonging to both belliger-
ent and neutral nations.
Personnel of Conference.
Besides the $50 Dutch delegates.
the gathering. which was presided
over by Aletta Jacobs, comprised
hfty-one women from America, three
from Austria, nine from Denmark,
five from Belgium (who arrived by
special permission OF the German
military authorities), nine from Hun
gary. twelve from sweden, fifteen
from Norway, twelve from Germany.
two from Great Britain, and one each
from Chile. Armenia, Italy and Can
ada.
Stirring addresses OF greeting We're
delivered by Anita Auguspurg of Mu
MICH Madame Tubierg of Denmark,
Katherine Courtney of London, OLGA
Misar of Vienna, Anna Kleman of
Stockholm, Mrs. Fanny Fern An
drews OF Boston, Wilma Gluecklichof,
Budapest. Rosa Genol of Milan, DR..
Keilkau of Norway and Mia Boisse-
vain of Amsterdam.
All Women Wish for Peace.
A thrill stirred the audience as the
women of the various nations uttered
sympathetic references to the sor-
rows and hardships of their sisters.
Or. Anita Augsburg aroused the en-
thusiasm of the DELEGATES when she
declared the womanly feelings We're
above all race hatreds and that the
German women stretched out their
hands for friendship and interna-
tlonal love.
Miss Courtney of England recipro-
Gated with the assurance that Eng
lish women thanked the women of
other nations for calling the gather
ing, declaring that all women in
their hearts wished for peace.
This was the first time when the
women of the world as an organized
body had been in a position to make
themselves heard in an effort to
bring the great war to an end, Miss
Courtney continued, and the women
were now going to say what they
thought of the war, not as nationals
but as women.
Caused Great Suffering.
Olga Misar of Vienna also dispar-
aged race hatred, saying the women
should help each other with sympa-
thy and endeavor to end the war
a war which the women had not
sought but which had caused them
great suffering.
Mrs. Andrews said that never be-
fore had she felt such faith in the
power of women to effect great
purpose. Every woman in the Unit
ed States she declared, sympathized
with the objects of the congress
Wilma Gluecklich, one of the Hun
garian delegates, argued that women
would not be worthy of their com
ing franchise unless they proved that
they were doing something to abolish
the war.
An address which held her audi
tors spellbound was delivered by
Signorina Genoli, the sole Italian
delegate. Speaking in French and
the horrors of war impending I'M
Italy. The men, who were starving
because of the stoppage of trade,
demanded to be sent to the front TO
fight. where they would be certain
to obtain food, she said Even the
Italian peace society had declared IN
favor of war But the women OF
Italy were praying against such
calamity Detailing them.
Dozens of messages from every
country. except Belgium, were read
by Dr. Berssevain.
DR.. Aletta Jacobs in her speech OF
welcome said:
We who convened this congress
never called ii peace congress, but
an international congress of women
to protest against the war and to dis
cuss ways and means by which war /
shall become an impossibility in the
future"