KPRIVATE PROPERTY AND IMMUNITY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 171, 19 July 1907, Page 5

KPRIVATE PROPERTY AND IMMUNITY.

! THE HAGUE, July 18. At the Peace Convention the representatives of Germany, Austria, Italy, I Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, 'Holland, Belgium. Luxemburg, Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba, Ecuador, Hayti, San ; Domingo, China, Siam, Persia, and Turkey voted in the Fourth Committee in ■ favour of the United States' proposal [for the inviolability of private property jat sea. Britain, France, Russia, Spain, PortuI gal, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Columbia, i San Salvador, and Montenegro voted against the proposal. Chili abstained from voting, and there were eleven absentees. This amounts to a negative, since an absolute majority is necessary.

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THE HAGUE, July 18. At the Peace Convention, during the discussion of the United States proposal for the inviolability of private property at sea, which was rejected, Great Britain and Germany insisted on the necessity of first settling the question of contraband and blockade before dealing with the abolition of prizes. Professor Martens (Russia) argued that the abolition of privateering would enable merchants to benefit from a state of war.