Women and the Boycott Movement.

MR. Hughes, the Australian Premier, while addressing a large meeting of British women at London on the 22nd June made a spirited appeal to them to assist in the movement for boycotting German trade. He said: "No one is more able to exercise a potent influence on public opinion than women, and if you only make up our minds to do so, no shopkeepers dare to expose goods that have been made by the enemy. If you regard goods made in Germany as anathema, shopkeepers would be very careful what they did. I am sure that even during the war goods are being sold, the profits which are amassing for the benefit of Germany after the war." He then pointed out how this sort of thing was prevented in Australia and urged that British women can do likewise. There can be no doubt that the co-operation of women would assist the object and Mr. Hughes' appeal will have a very important effect in carrying out the future economic policy.