THE PEACE CONVENTION

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12015, 16 August 1907, Page 3

THE PEACE CONVENTION

Received August 15, 112.8 p.m. The Hague, August 15. At the Peace Convention Germany resists the Dutch proposal which Britain accepts— that anchored mines so constructed as to become harmless in two houra may be laid within the sphere of active operations. Austria and Rnssia support Germany's opposition, , London, August 10. i'he *'Time_<, " referring to the above, says that should Germany ' 3 opposition prevail any belligerent will be entitled to scatter mines broadcast over the sea wherever he may think fit, and leave them there, exposing merchantmen for months, perhaps for years, to sudden and utter annihilation.