INTERNATIONAL PRIZE COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 226, 24 September 1907, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE COURT.

ADOPTION OF A DBAFT CONVENTION.

[press association.] '"{Received Sept. 23, 10.3 p.m.)

THE HAGUE, Sept, 23

A plenary sitting of the Peace Convention, by 37 to 1, with six abstentions, adopted a draft convention relating to the establishment of an International Prize Court, the only dis■Sentient being Brazil.

M. Nelidoff, the president, in be■half of the Conference^ congratulated It. .Renault, of France, to whose everyone attributed the success of the scheme.

At Sir Edward Fry's instance, the Conference decided unanimously to jnake the, Prize Court, the subject- of 2> special-international Convention.