RECENT PEACE CONFERENCE.
DIFFICULTIES YET TO BE OVERCOME. Received January 7, 11.20 p.m. LONPON, January 7. A Blue Book dealing with the Hague Conference, has been issued, and shows that Sir Edward Gray's latest despatch expressed the satisfaction of the Government at the recognition of the principle of the need of an International Court of Appeal in prize matters, but many difficulties remain to be overcome before such a Court would become effective. Sir Edward Fry, another British delegate, complains that the conference's machinery was extremely dilatory and confusing, and refers to the small backward states claiming equality with the most powerful and enlightened Governments. He adds: "If such claims are persisted in it may drive the greater powers to act in many cases by themselves." I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9022, 8 January 1908, Page 5
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127RECENT PEACE CONFERENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9022, 8 January 1908, Page 5
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