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Show People of Europe Readyjor Peace 8o Says Jane Addams, Just Returned But Negotiations Must Come From Neutrals Now York, July B. Miss Jnno Ad-dams, Ad-dams, chairman of tho International Congress of Women for Pcaco that met nt Tho Ilnguo In April last and who headed tjio delegations appointed appoint-ed at the conference to v sit tho various va-rious countries on a pence, mission, arrhed here today on the steamship St. Louis from Liverpool. Miss Addams declared that the peo-plo peo-plo ot the wnrrlng nations wero in n mood to consider 'peaco tonus, but that negotiations must come from rtu trnls and the longer they wero delayed de-layed the harder would bo tho task of restoring peace. Sinco tho adjournment ad-journment of tlys conference with other .delegates she visited most ot the countries al war, met and talked with leading civil and military officials offic-ials and sounded each on tho prospects pros-pects ot peaco. "Tho nations ot war," Miss Addams said, "have no choice but to go on. No negotiations can now be suggested suggest-ed by any of them without giving the appearance of weakness and no'ie of tho nations aa yet feels In tho slightest but that Ha cause can ..nd must succeed. Delay Makes Terms Harder "Every day that peace negotlatlona are delajed will make terms ot peace Just that much harder. The heavy toll of life and tho expenditure of treasure mean that tho people will expect Just that much more consider-at consider-at on for their agreement to end tho war. What will be tho outcome a.id what nation or nations will j the medlatlve forces cannot be told nt this tlmo dospito tho fact I found everywhere ev-erywhere a spirit of anxiety rfmoTg the pcoplo to stop tho horror. "In every country at war there oto two parties, civil and military. Members' Mem-bers' of tho civil party nro jatr otic and the military party Is naturally In control. Tho sentiment for peace' carries with It the question ot accession acces-sion or giving up of torrltory. Thuro Is somo feeling in Germany that Bel-glum Bel-glum might bo given up In return for concessions ot territory in the Congo. Con-go. In Franco there Is the desire for the restoration ot Alsaco and Lor-raino, Lor-raino, but with a feeling tho concessions conces-sions might bo granted In other ways. All this, however, Is unofficial and so far as I could seo, peace terms and conditions are as yet but a matter mat-ter ot speculation, "Tho people In all tho countries are beginning to reallzo the frightful-ness frightful-ness ot tho slaughter. I was told by an officer who had served on the western front that even on days when an engagement was not on, tho loss was fully 2,000 lives ovory 24 hours lives taken by sharpshootlng, by firing from advanced trenches and by dropping bombs from nlrcraft. On tho days when an actual engagement is In progress tho loss ot Ufo so fnr can only be estimated." t Franco Resentful 'to America What country could or would tako tho lead In peaco negotiations, Miss Addams coUlU not say. Whilo America, Am-erica, she said, was recognized as tho strongest ot tho neutrals In Gorman Gor-man thoro was resentment owing to 'sale ot arms and ammunition to tho lollies. In Franco Bho said flho found Irosontmcnt bocauso tho United States 1 had not made formal protest over tho (invasion of Belgium. In Germany, however, sho found among ofllclala, sho said, an acknowledgement that tho United States was acting wholly within her rights. Minister von, Ja-gow Ja-gow himself told her, sho declared, that tho United States had a legal, as woll us a moral rlgllt to sell arms and ammunition to whom J' choso, After tho conforonco at THo Hague had closod, Miss Addams said, delegates dele-gates woro sont to bolllgoront nnd neutral countries. Representatives from noutral countries went to the belligerents and representatives from belllgoronts to tho noutrnls. Miss Addams Ad-dams headed tho party that visitod England, France, Austral'a and Italy. In nil countries sho was recelvod courteously. ' Audience With the Pope On Juno 8 she was in Homo nnd was granted a half hour's audience with tho people. "Tho pope was very nlco to us," said Miss Addams. "Ho said that ho realized that womon iad a great part to play in tho restoration restora-tion of peaco, and he added that tho Vatican stood ready to cooporato and unite with any moveraont looking toward to-ward that end, Ho was very cautious In hla statemontB, however, w'th ro-spect ro-spect to neutrality nnd nothing that ho said could bo construod to favor any sldo," Miss Addamg Bald that whlio In London sho Investigated tho question of "war babies." Sho said she found that this was a mnttor that had been grcntly exaggerated. Informed that nn nppo'ntmont had been arranged for her with President Wilson, Miss Addams expressed herself her-self nB honored nnd said that sho would probably go to Washington noxt woek. She said sho would toll I'rosldcnt Wilson what sho had observed ob-served but declined to say whethor sho would make nny suggestions. It was announced that Miss Addams Ad-dams would mako her first public address ad-dress on her European observations nt a pcaco meeting at Carncglo hall July 9, this meotlng having 'boon arranged ar-ranged by ton poaco societies, i Miss Addnms was met at tho pier by about forty womon representing seventeen poaco societies . |