HAGUE CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 174, 23 July 1907, Page 5

HAGUE CONFERENCE.

Bed Cross in Naval Warfare.

THE HAGUE, July 22.

J A plenary sitting of the Conference las approved of a new Convention, sdaptmg the principles of the Geneva Contention to maritime war.

PARIS. July 22.

"Le Temps" says that the British resolution referring to the limitation of armaments 3s a mere aspiration, not the iteftior an agreement-

[At an international Conference held Ei October 26, 1863, on the question ef -whether relief societies might not be formed in time of peace to help the vonnded in time of wax by means of qualified volunteers, fourteen Governments were represented. The propositions t&en drawn up were accepted, as an jidemstianal "iode by s. Congress which met at Gemsra on August 8, 1864, and ta Angnsfc 22 of the same year a contention was signed by twelve of the Megates,.an<i was eventually adopted by Hi CJyflispd Powers except the United Sates. --international Conferences were hid at.Paris in 1867 and at Berlin in 1569 for further developing in a practical manner the objects of the Geneva Conference.]