INTER-PARLI AMENT ART CONGRESS IN BERLIN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13227, 22 September 1908, Page 7

INTER-PARLI AMENT ART CONGRESS IN BERLIN.

United Pre?' Asuxci.-i'ion —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received September 21st. 10.20 p.m.) BERLIN, September 21. The Inter-Parliamentary Congress at Berlin rocomi.ieiulod that ail iS tales adept compulsory arbitration, and urged that the next Hague Conference should adopt tbe principle of international agreement, whereby only arms and ammunition and other necessaries ot war, but not the ship on whioh they were found should be regarded as contraband, and destroyed; also that private property should be immune, and !open harbours never blockaded. Tho Congress aocopu-d Sir Wilfrid Lauriers invitation to meet in Quebec m 1909. Prince Bulow __aye a brilliaut garden party in honour of the Congress. In response to Lord Weardale's thanks ior the hospitable reception of tiie delegates in Berlin, he declared that tho Kaiser aud the German people, the Government, and himself, wore animated by the friendlie-t feeling? towards Great Britain. The down Prince, in receiving the Council of the Congress on bohalf oi tho Kai»er. said he followed the Union's labours and aims with lively interest, and recognised their incruasinig importance. He- hoped the Congrcs.> would bo lollowed by b(.iie__cei_t results to the cuuse of peace, which was, and -would remain, the basis of all true prcgres. and civilisation. Its maintenance had been throughout his reign his father's foremost care.