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Sancepean ss ote es Serene OE Sai Ai a Pes BO ee er sn cnun wtet arten Se mere mat 9 te ta th cmt te ein A ne ated ©. @ Ce ha 4 HURBDAY MAY 1, 1924 fhe meeting convened at 9 Sie, Jane dadanes International President ef the League, presiding. after the robl eall és delegates, the first speaker wes Raith Wharton, of Australia, who read & statement of the work earried on by the League in that eountrye She eaid the territory was large and the population scattered, making 4t difficult to “spread propagends, but that great progresé had peen made within the | | ast year, and that there was & large pacifist sentiment in Australia at the present ¢imee ae fhe next speaker introduced was Yella Rortexa of Russia, who styles hereelf as the “founder of the new women's elubs in ~iiaeaiace She addressed the meeting for two minutes, wrging & elesarer and more comprehensive - -{nternational eooperation between | working classes ef all countries, and advocated & sgpirit of peaceful resistance” 86 ¢he means of bringing pressure to bear upon proposed legislation. Zhe next speaker wes lacie Degardin, of Belgium, who described hersalf as “Supplementary Member of the Belgium Chamber of Deputies” and "Chevalier ef the Order of Leopold the Second,” says that Guring the war, because of her activities, she was | taken prisoner and sentenced to death with gix civilisns charged with expionags- She gays that with these civilians she was marched out to be shot early one morning and gew them drop one by one befors her, and at the ast moment she learned that her own sentence bad been commuted to an {ndefinite sentence in & military prison. After ghree yoars of what she described as “terrible hardships", she was freed and inmediate- 1y organized & society consisting of former goldiers of the war, for the purpose of extending relief to the children of the Central Bupire. She read her report in French, . stating that women pacifists, braving to be called traitors, banded together and sent good and supplies to the sufferers in Austria. She chains that her connections with | the peace movenent has been the means of the reconstruction of & large part of “old |