HAGUE PEACE CONVENTION.
BRITAIN'S SUBMARINE MINES PROPOSALS. THE HAGUE, September 27. A committee has rejected British attempts to adequately regulate submarine mines, and has adopted a form of regulation highly unsatisfactory to shipping interests. THE TIMES COMPLAINS. Received September 29, 4.12 p.m. LONDON, September 28. The Times, referring to the Hague Convention, complains of the hypocrisy and tactics employed to defeat Great Britain's submarine miner, proposals. There was a constant insinuation that Great Britain was selfishly desirous of securing the safety of her ocean trade and of depriving the smaller Powers of a cheap weapon of defence. CAPTURED MERCHANTMEN AND CREWS. LAND WARFARE. Received September 29, 4.12 p.m. THE HAGUE, September 28. The plenary sitting of the Peace Conference approved of the draft conventions relating to the treatment of captured merchantmen and crews belonging to an enemy, and exempting from capture coastal fishing boats. The Conference were unable to agree regarding the question of whether merchantmen may be converted into warships on the high seas, but approved of a regulation partly dealing with the general question of conversion. The Powers were urged to apply, as far as possible, the naval warfare principles of the Convention of 1899 covering land warfare. Lack of time prevented an agreement on the question of contraband. For the same reason no agreement was arrived at on the question of the inviolability of an enemy's private property at sea and the destruction of neutral piizes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 30 September 1907, Page 5
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239HAGUE PEACE CONVENTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 30 September 1907, Page 5
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