THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8946, 11 October 1907, Page 2

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Press Association —Copyright. The Hague. October 10.

A plenary' sitting of the Peace 1 Conference adopted a convention relating to submarine mines, but reservations on the part of several of the Powers nullify, so far as they are concerned, its most important provisions. The discussion revealed a marked conflict of opinion betweein the British and German delegations. Sir Ernest Satow emphatically declared that Great Britain would not accept the convention as the final solution of the matter. Pie also commented upon its inadequacy, stating further that neutral shipping would be gravely endangered. The Conference also adopted a convention as to the rights and duties of neutrals in war time. Britain, Japan, America, and three others abstained from voting, while Germany and five others made reservations. At the Peace Conference Sir hr. Satow, British delegate, considered that neutrals’ rights were superior to those of belligerents and that it was unfair to expose neutrals to the risk of great disasters. Germany claims that belligerents have the right to remain for an indefinite term in neutral port when not in immediate proximity to the theatre of war, and that belligerents are entitled to coal at the same port a second time after throe months.