THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.
Received June 17, 8.57 a.m. THE HAGUE, June-16. Dr. D. A. W. Van Tets van Goudriaan, Premier, welcomed the delegates to The Hague Peace Convention, and delivered a formal inaugural address. Received June 17, 10.25 p.m. THE HAGUE, June 17. M. Nelidoff, Russian delegate, has ' been elected President of the Peace Convention. In the course of a speech, on assuming the presidency, M. Nelidoff said he rejoiced at the increasing disposition of the states to resort to arbitration, but he counselled the Conference against being too ambitious. Nations, he added, had the same passions and weaknesses as individuals. He remarked that if courts of justice, despite the severity of penalties wherewith they were armed, failed to prevent quarrels, it would be the same between nations, although the progress of conciliation and softness of manners ought to diminish such cases.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8467, 18 June 1907, Page 5
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142THE HAGUE CONFERENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8467, 18 June 1907, Page 5
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