RULES OF WARFARE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 7

RULES OF WARFARE.

' THE NAVAL CONFERENCE. |bt TEi.EGiurn—riiEss association—coriaioni) (Rec. February 28, 4.30 p.m.) London, February 27. The Naval Conference, sitting in London, has signed an important declaration consisting of 71 -articles embodying tho recoguised rules of warfare. At the invitation of Sir Edward Grey, and as the outcome of the proposals made at the Hague Conference for tho establishment of an International Trize Court, an International Conference on Maritime Warfare was summoned to meet in London on December 1, 1908. No', agreement was arrived' at at the Hague Conforence as to the law which the judges of the Court were to administer. The delegates of tho great naval Powers havo therefore to endeavour to arrive at a general agreement as to / how far tho separate national codes anil laws of maritimd war can bo consolidated into a system which may eventually be recognised and administered by the International I rizo Court. Ten countries sent delegates to Si. 0 including tho Great Powers. iA?r ™ °- ® esl }F t » K.C.8., was appointed as 1131. Plenipotentiary, and Eear-Admirdl Sir Charles Ottfey, 1C.C.J1.G., M.V.0., Captain E. t Vr M-V.0., Mr. Eyre Crowe, C.8., and Mr. C. J. B. Hurst, C.8., as British delegates.