"A SHAM."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 22, 21 October 1907, Page 7

"A SHAM."

"TIMES" ON HAGUE CONFERENCE. MERE SENTIMENTALISM. PRESIDENT EXTOLS THE PRIZE COURT. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Rec. October 20, 4.10 p.m.) , /. London, October 19. "The Times , !/ says that The Haguo Conferis a 'sham. It has dono littlo good, , and considerable mischief. Its chiof valno ( is tliat it will be a warning against tho be- ; sotting folly of tho hour-vpandering to sentiment, merely because it is popular, and regardless of inovitablo consequences. "Tho Times" hopos that tho Government will rofrnin from ratifying cither tho International i'rizo Court or any other project until it is satisfied that England's position is not compromised, and that her power remains intact. Tho Spectator says that any statesman is mad who, because of noblo sontiments expressed at Tho Hague, abates his anxious care that tho country shall continue to be capable of instant an elfective resistance against on- . ■ ■ At tho final sitting of the Conference, the President, M. Nclidoff, Russian delegate, claimed that tho International Prize Cburt was a monument of the work of tho Conforence. The delegates had dono their best, nnd their successors must dovolop what they had begun. THIRTEEN CONVENTIONS. ( The Hague, October 18. Tho plonary sitting of-Tho Haguo Conforenco voted its acto finale, enumerating thirteen conventions and one declaration, which, in tho form of separato acts, will bo submitted to tho Statos for signature. Tho Conforoncc indicates tho direction in which it is desirable that tho Powors should work in ordor to achievo important aims srhich were partly'discussed by' v tho Conforonoo without doiinito results. Tho "Spectator's" attaclc on the alleged inefficiency of the ilect was published in these columns a few days ago. When tho present naval programme was drafted, the, building of ono of tho battleships wan niadq contingent on the attitnelo of The llafjuo Conference towards limitation of armaments.