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Show FRENCH WOMEN are NO AID I GERMANS Decline to Intercede in Mitigating Mitigat-ing Terms of Armistice as Asked by German Women. PARIS. Nov. 23. (British Wireless Sen-ice) The national council oi French women has declined to intercede inter-cede with the French government to mitigate tho terms of the German armistice. ar-mistice. In reply to a message published pub-lished in the press from German women wo-men to Madame Jules SIgfried, president presi-dent of the council, the council yesterday yes-terday unanimously adopted this resolution: reso-lution: "No. Wo will not intercede with our government to mitigate the conditions con-ditions of the armistice which are onl" too justified by tho manner in which Germany has waged war. "In the course of these tragic years German women believing victorv was certain, remained silent at the crimes of their government, their army and their navy. "At the congress at The Hague, to which we refused to go, tho president of tho national council of German women wo-men was invited to protest against the violation of Belgium and against the torpedoing of the Lusitnnia. She wrote in reply: " 'We are at one with our people. The men who took the responsibllit: for Germany's decisions are as dear tt us as those who are shedding their blood for us on the battle field.' "To our indignant protest agains' tho deportation of women and youn? girls and when we showed that history his-tory might possibly bring n reversal of fortune there was no response." oo |