THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11993, 20 July 1907, Page 3

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

The Hague, July IS. At the Peace Convention, during the discussion on the United States proposal for the inviolability of private property at sea in war, "which was rejected," Britain and Germany insisted on the necessity first to settle the question of contraband and blockade before dealing with the abolition of prizes. Professor Maartens argued that the abolition of privateering would enable nierdhantfl to benefit from a state of WAI 1 Britain will ask the Convention to adopt a resolution submitted at the last Conference respecting the limitation of armaments as a question that had now become more urgent. Baron von Marchall von Biberstein stated that Germany did^not consider the question pressing. M. Bourgeois, the French representative, personally favored the British position, but said that France considered the question academic.