HAGUE CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 5

HAGUE CONFERENCE.

THE DSAGO DOCTRINE.

CONTRABAND QUESTION.

(Received 7.50 a.m.)

THE HAGUE, July 25.

Great Britain and Germany support a proposal by the United States for the collection of contractual debts which is regarded as less extreme than the Drago doctrine.

. Lord Beay explained before the fourth Commission the motives inducing Great Britain to advocate the abolition of contraband, laying stress on the fact that the complications resulting from capture were becoming so dangerous that they were not compensated by any real utility. There is little prospect of Great Britain's proposal being adopted owing to German and Japanese opposition.

[It was decided at the Pan-American Conference at Rio de Janeiro last year to bring before the tribunal at The Hague the question of the forcible collection of public debts and pecuniary claims of all kinds. The Drago doctrine (enunciated by Dr. Luis Drago, of the Argentine Republic) lays down the principle that .no monetary claim due to the subject of a foreign Power shall be collected by force employed by that Power.]