THE PEACE CONFERENCE
COLLECTION OF DEBTS.
PROPOSED ABOLITION OF CONTRABAND.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright THE HAGUE, July 25.
Great Britain and Germany support tho United States’ proposal for the collection of contractual debts, which is regarded as less extreme than the Drago doctrine. Lord Reay (British delegate) explained before the Fourth Commission the motives inducing Groat Britain to advocate the abolition of contraband, laying stress on the fact of complications resulting from capture becoming eo dangerous that they would not bo compensated for by any real utility. There is little prospect of Britain’s proposal being adopted, owing to German and Japanese opposition.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6272, 27 July 1907, Page 7
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