THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9308, 5 March 1907, Page 5

THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.

UNIVERSAL PEACE AN ILLUSION.

DISARMAMENT SCHEME IMPOSSIBLE.

FRENCH NEWSPAPER CRITICISMS

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.!

PARIS, March 4.

The Paris newspaper Le Temps, in an | article, asks what right had Sir H. Camp-bell-Bannerman to affirm it was possible in 1899, or row, to arrange limitation of ar maments. "Since 1899," it says, "we have seen the Transvaal and Japanese wars, and th c Moroccan crisis. Compare the ideal with stern reality, and you will measure the impudent confidence by which the 'responsible head of the British Govern ment was carried away. It is wiser," Le Temps go on to say, "to recognise that the Hague Conference should be the work of jurists able to codify the laws of war. It is not to establish universal peace. To expect it to be is to create illusions doomed to grievous disappointment."