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Show WOMEN WOULD END WORLD WAR INTERNATIONAL PEAC CONGRESS CON-GRESS OPENS WITH STIRRING ADDRESSES BY DELEGATES. Earnest Desire for Durable Peace Expressed Ex-pressed by Delegates Belonging to Both Belligerent and Neutral Nations. The Hague. Forty-two delegates from the United States to the International Inter-national Woman's Peace congress, who had been held up on the steamer Xoordam because of Great Britain's order stopping traffic to Holland, arrived ar-rived here Tuesday. The delegates reached The Hague in time for the opening meeting of the congress Tuesday night, at which an earnest desire to bring the world's war to a conclusion and insure a durable dur-able peace was strongly expressed by delegates -belonging to both belligerent land neutral nations. I Besides the 886 Dutch delegates, the (gathering, which was presided over by tAJetta Jacobs, comprised fifty-one Kvomen from America, three from Austria, Aus-tria, nine from Denmark, five from Belgium (who arrived by special permission per-mission of the German military authorities, au-thorities, nine from Hungary, twelve from Sweden, fifteen from Norway, twelve from Germany, two from Great Britain and one each from Chile, Ar-tuenia, Ar-tuenia, Italy and Canada. A thrill seemed to stir the audience as the women of the various nations uttered sympathetic references to the sorrow and hardships of their sisters. Dr. Anita Augsprug of Munich aroused the enthusiasm of the delegates when she declared the womanly feelings were above all race hatred and that the German women stretched out their hands for friendship and international love. ofiss Courtney of England reciprocated recipro-cated with the assurance that English women recognized the women of other nations as sisters and were heartily thankful to the neutral nations for calling the gathering, declaring that ail women in their hearts wished for peace. This was the first time when the women of the world as an organized body had been in a position to make themselves heard in an effort to bring the great war to an end. Hiss Courtney Court-ney continued, and the women were now going to say what they thought of the war, not as nationals, but as women. |