INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.
PEACE CONFERENCE APPROVES THE PRINCIPLE.
STRONG OBJECTION BY GERMANY.
United Press Association—Copyright Received Oct. 7, 11.49 p.in. THE HAGUE, Oct, 7. Tho First Committee of the Peace Convention by 30 to 6 adopted 1 the principle of obligatory arbitration on specific subjects by means of a general convention. Japan abstained from voting- nnnonty consisted of Germany, Austria, China, Greece, Itou.mania, and Turkey. Germany argued that whereas in international as in private affairs .everything depended upon tho spirit of the agreement, and this in- turn depended upon the individual character and traditional relations of the contracting parties, no Power under the committee's i>lan could tell beforehand with whom it may have to bind itself to arbitrate. Germany also emphasised tho difficulty of differing 011 judicial and political questions. LONDON', Oct. 7. “The Times” declares that these objections are weighty and cogent, inasmuch as it is a vague, sketchy scheme, fraught with all sorts of peril.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2205, 8 October 1907, Page 3
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