THE HAGUE CONVENTION.
PROPOSED ABOLITION OF
FLOATING MINES.
CHINA IN SUPPORT.
By Telegraph.Press Association.—Copyright.
The Hague, July 4. At the Peace Convention China is supporting Britain's proposal to restrict the employment of anchored submarine mines, and to abolish floating mines.
It is stated that hundreds of Chinese fishermen and sailors perished through submarine mines during the Russo-Japanese war.
PEACE SOCIETY'S PETITION
TWO MILLION SIGNATURES
(Received July 5, 10.50 p.m.)
The Hague, July 5.
The American Peace Society presented M. Nelidoff, Russian delegate at The Hague Convention, with a petition signed by two million Americans in favour of international arbitration as a means of limiting armaments.
M. Nelidoff replied that armaments would naturally diminish if the Convention promoted methods for the friendly settlement of differences.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13483, 6 July 1907, Page 5
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