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Show WOMEN VOULD STOP SPREADING OF WAR WASHINGTON'. Dec. 0. Miss Laura Hughes of Toronto, niece of Lieutenant General Sir Sum Mughos, until recently Canadian minister of militia and defense, told today's session of the Woman's Peace pijrt" in session here that the women of Canada were now working to prevent other wars from growing out of the conflict in Kurope. "To the inetreat of women," said Miss Hughes, "an effort is heing made in Canada to secure a durable peace. It is realized that thf absence of war is not peace. The world never has had peace. The settlement of ench war always has left tlie seedy of another conflict, and we are working to make tho settlement of this war of a different kind." Most of today's session was token up with reports from various state organizations. organiza-tions. Speaker genera lly voiced t h"-i r disapproval of compulsory military service. |