INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 18 March 1911, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

AX INTERCHANGE OF VIEWS. IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORLD'S PEACE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 10. Divergent opinions are expressed regarding the passage of Sir Edward Grey's speech, which suggested that Mr. Taft's proposal for an arbitration treaty would probably lead to a further agreement of mutual help in case one of the signatories had a quarrel with a third who refused to submit the issue to arbitration.

The Washington correspondent of the Times declares that the latter suggestion was an academic and pious wish. Had it been less obviously bo it would have prejudiced the trans-Atlantic prospects of Mr.'Taft's original proposal. As the matter stands, the speech had tended to make the situation brighter. Washington, March 16.

Mr. Taft will probably submit to the December meeting of Congress a proposal for an unlimited arbitration treaty between Britain and the United States. An informal exchange : of views between the two Governments is occurring. London, March 16.

Lord Reay, who was one of the British delegates to the Hague Peace Conference, interviewed, said that the idea of an arbitration agreement between Britain and the United States was a great advance in the interests of the world's peace, and would lead to an important extension of the arbitration of international disputes. He favored Sir Edward Grey's suggestion. Lord Charles Beresford, interviewed, said .the time had arrived when the English-speaking countries should combine to prevent war, as peace was absolutely essential to us. The Revs. Robert Horton, Silvester Home, and J. H. Shakespeare, and other Free Church leaders, in a letter to the Times, state that they, and thousands whom they represent, were ready to follow Sir Edward Grey. Mankind was becoming sick and impatient of the ineptitude which led the country into great national waste of its resources upon war and armaments. An outbreak of war was threatened from the mere tension and intolerable strain,