The Daily News WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1904. NOTE AND COMMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 256, 2 November 1904, Page 2

The Daily News WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1904. NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Hague Tribunal, to which the dispute over THE HAGUE TRI- the Dogger BUNAL. Ban:; affair has been referred, was formed by Act of Conference on July 29,1899. There is no | permanent tribunal, but there are three permanent institutions created under the Act of Conference, which provide machinery. These are the Bureau International do la Hoye, or Administrative Office, at which is to be found the general Secretary, M. 1.. H. Ruyssenaers. It takes care of the archives and the library and conducts correspondence, l'he (Tonseil Administratif consists of the diplomatic representatives of the signatory Powers at The Hague, and of the Dutch Foreign Secretary, who is president. This body is to constitute and supervise the bureau, and to keep the signatory Powers informed regarding ks work. The third body, the Court Permanente d'Arbitrage is simply a list of persons who have been nominated by the Powers, and have declared their willingness toi act as arbitrators when required to do so. None of these bodies has the right to take the iniUiative in the instatunion of a Court of Arbitration. The initiative must be taken by the Governments that are parties to the dispute, and iby both of them. Only two cases have been referred to the Court. The first case was a dispute between the United States and Mexico regarding church funds. This was heard in 1902, and it was decided in favour of the United States. The second case had relation to the Venezuelan question, the point being whether' Great Britain, Germany, and Italy, who had taken action against Venezuela, should have preference over otlier Powers tin the settlement of their claims. Mr Andrew Carnegie, the American millionaire, has given £300,000 for the erection of a Temple of Peace, at The Hague, in connection with the Court of Arbitration. The Dutch Government is to be responsible for the expenditure of the money and the administration of the building.

This extract from the late Mr Don Leno's soliloquies "AS A CAP is appropriate to the —OFF !" news recently published of the War Office's decision to abolish the extraordinary article of Army headgear known as the "Brodrick" cap. A London daily goes so far as to say that probably no item of news was received with so much satisfaction in all ranks and arms of the service since the day of Waterloo. The design oi this cap was the crowningi achievement of Mr Brodrick's genius at the- War Office. It was, as it were, the final revelation of that inventive spirit which produced Mix army corps of phantom soldiers, charged with the duty of defending the Kingdom against assailants who could never have landed, if the British Admiralty was to be believed. The same spirit was responsible for a number of other ingeniiou.si inventions, which have also disappeared, but this was its greatest effort and the most renowned. With the modesty that distinguishes him, Mr Brodrick has ON THE never claimed- the whole SHELF credit for the cap, but I has always been willing to shal-e it with others, who with equal modesty have declined to bear It. Recently the cap basi been blamed for the decline of recruiting, and it is on recoitl that it has cost the hfe of at least one soldier, who iscredibly reported to have committed suicide rather than wear it And now it-is. to pass, with Mr DrodJ k « other inventions, to the shelves of the Lnited Service Institution Museum where we doubt not, u will be l a ,d m the dust, dulv tickrted and indexed. st) that the at taiuanuns of future ages may wiTh the calmness peculiar to men „, science speculate upon ™ ° j£"Ji it played ,„ British military

The dislike of the aoldler for the TOMMYS I,rod '' lck «P was so bJjUvFj Pn'y "-Pider is that the ded lt^ »« "«.■ cap is short awl ingiJw' ,° f troduccd M „ oxprtmmt, ""wear" as at fi rst restricted ~, the rkn """Ms, a, n d on it s apiear.l'e ,„ l'"bl.c it w, a s reived by " " B(h ,'^ PJ'Wic and pre* with », 'tlewm-d The soldier, lo a tt e d t for its unlovely lines had t li«. X-t OHiV * " ltS w,ad °"> ,h « War <he persevered until every ,„,,„?; "L , e .- A ''" lv ' wt Eluding the 1 Wnck' cavalry corps »., „}: ° juhhed under it. ItTeJt «„?£ cruiuns w a s disastrous. J„ \. ™ldo.n,vas,tial»en to tho lot „f om ai ticlo oi dress lo work so ,„""£ mischief as rtid the pancake .„h dress with W h„s e creator S-" ffi Tin*,* a-socfatoil. I 1 here will be IUI experimental issue ot an improved head-dress, with permanent peak, very much like the present officers' cap : but the "leanings of the authorities arc in the direction of the discarded field ■service headfrenß which the Bi\>,k;,-k pattern superseded, while a smart blue "slouch" hat with the old regimental Iwdgc on the loopod-up hrim is also under consideration. ON THE&FOURTH PAGE. Literature. VVaitara Ncwa. I