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Show MONSTER PETITION H Boston Woman Carries Two Million Slg-natures Slg-natures to Peace Conference. THE HAGUE, July 1. PrcsldcntNcll-doff PrcsldcntNcll-doff of the peace conference today ro-celvod ro-celvod .Miss Anna Eckstein of Boston. Mass., who proscnted a petition signed by ovor two million Americans In rnvoi of a general arbitration treaty. II. Nell-doff Nell-doff congratulated her on the number of signatures and said the petition was It: tho right direction, for If any Umlta- IH tlou of armaments was possible it would have to bo done through arbitration. Russia, he continued, had not renounced her original programme, but to carry lt out it wns nei'tosary to havo recourse to arbitration. Tho development of Inter- natlonul law and International courts must be dictated by a full understanding BB between tho Suites and peoples, the fur- BBB therence of mutual good will and love oi BBB Christ. Hi The' conference, M. Nclidoff added, would discuss whether It should meol BBB periodically, but he did not believe that 'jBB tho present conference would arrive at a BBB decision on the subject. BBB Robert Treat Paine, president of the BBB American Peace society, who was pies- BBJ cut at the Interview between M. Nolldofr BBJ aud Miss Eckstein, said tbut It assumed BBJ greater Importance owing to tho fact that BBJ It occurrod on the Fourth of July, which BBJ ho considered to be a good omc- BBJ |