Show I Stir Stirring ing Cry for or Peace in in Humanity's Name Uttered by Englishwoman 1 What Result Do the Allies Allies' Wish Asks Suffrage Leader in Strong Reply to War Minister Lloyd I II I I B By EMMELINE LAWRENCE LAW LAW- LAWRENCE RENCE Famous British Suffragette and Lec Lec- By 81 Th TS lb Telegram News New r Sm LONDON Dec 9 U If If the United States or any other neutral country is ready to lead the way in negotiations negotiations for peace in the name of civilization civilization in lD the name of oC humanity let the belligerents hold themselves ready to give due consideration to their proposals for establishing public I right in Europe The pronouncement ment of the British war minister that any step on the part of ot the United States or any other neutral in the of ot peace would be construed by England as an un- un neutral pro German move brings deep regret to many who deeply love their country's renown Lloyd-George Lloyd has himself seen the thet horrors of ot the battlefields ba I 1 stood t the he says as it were at the gates of hell and saw myriads marching Into the furnace I saw some coming out scorched and mutilated Terrible as is this picture it takes no account of unhappy peoples like th the Poles the Armenians and the races of ot the Balkan states who are dying wholesale of starvation and misery and are now faced by the Indescribable indescribable able severities of another winter It takes no account of ot the hearts of the women of oC Europe that are being broken or of ot the hundreds of thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ot babies and children that are fading away from malnutrition and exhaustion Does the British war minister really mean that even though by negotiations negotiations England might obtain the objects objects objects ob ob- for or which England went towar to towar towar war there is to be no cessation of hostilities until we have inflicted upon central Europe the defeat inflicted d upon Napoleon at the cost of twenty years of war I Time I is the least vital factor says the British war minister The result counts not the time consumed in achieving it it The result What result The freedom freedom free tree dom and reinstatement of Belgium The evacuation of occupied territories The security of France The conversion conversion conversion con con- version of ot Europe into a graveyard at the cost of the blood of ot the tho young manhood of ot every belligerent nation and the deterioration of the white races of ot the eastern hemisphere I ask this question as a woman who realizes what it means t td to the mothers of the world to see their children children children chil chil- dren mutilated and slain I plead foran for foran foran an answer on behalf of the myriads who are marching into the furnace of hell under a system of ot military com corn cornand compulsion compulsion I and who no longer possess the the liberty to speak for themselves I A large e part of the civil population i 55 MRS E E P. P X LA in Germany Austria and Hungary are crying for peace Demonstrations are being held when resolutions calling for questions peace without annexations or acquisitions acquisitions ac ac- of any kind d are carried by ly bythe lythe y the entire assembly These meetings are countenanced by the civil authorities authorities authorities ties of ot countries long branded militarist militarist mili taris 1 Is it not time that something was said by the representatives of Britain and France to strengthen the hands of the civil populations of the central central central cen cen- powers against the militarism which we ourselves are fighting Should not the enemy be told told that that if and when he is ready to yield that which public right demands this horror horror horror hor hor- of carnage will cease The people should be made to realize realize real real- ize that Britain is not willing that the slaughter should be wrought for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of vengeance or for the aim of crushing any nation As a lover of ot my country I appeal against the idea that this war can never be ended except by the knockout knockout knockout knock knock- I out blow The agony of the world cannot be described in the jargon of the sporting ring I |