PEACE CONVENTION.
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• : • • ; ! Per Press Association. , Received Oct. 10; at 10.17 p,ra.- ■ . 1 "-'■:•■:.'■.-■•; Tho Hague, Tot. 10. : ,-'■ A plenary sitting of the Peace Cotu fererico -adopted a convention roiatirij; lo ; submarine mines, but the reeewattons oi several Power* gfil milll|!y as lax as they are concerned its most important provisions.' Tho discussion revealed a marked conljiot.6! opinion between the German mid British delegates. [Sir Ernest.Satow emphatically declared that Britain would not accept tlto! Convcntioh'as' a final solution, of -the matter, and commented on' Its' Inadeqluacy ;• also,',-thai noiltral shipping was gravely endangered.■•;". The confcreiico also -ftdoito'l a convention as ;to the'rightsand duties ol "neutrals in war time, Britain. Japin America and three olfes abstained from vote, and Germwy and five I others made reservations.
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North Otago Times, 11 October 1907, Page 2
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123PEACE CONVENTION. North Otago Times, 11 October 1907, Page 2
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