PEACE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13706, 22 September 1908, Page 5

PEACE.

THE BERLIN CONGRESS

THE RECOMMENDATIONS.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyriejh Received 10.26 "p.m., Sept. 21st.

BERLIN, Sept, .21.

Tha Iriter-parlianieutary Congress at Berlin recommended that all States should adopt compulsory arbitration; urged that the third Hague Conference should adopt the principle of an international agreement whereby only arms and ammunition and other necessaries of war, bn£ not the ship on which .they are found, should be regarded as contraband and destroyed be regarded as contraband and destroyed; also that private property should be immune, and .That open harbouiG should never be blockaded.

The Congress accepted the principle of Sir Wilfrid Lauriers invitation to meet at Quebec in 1909.

PrinotJ Ton Buelow gave a brilliant garden parly in honour of the Congress.

In response to Lord Woardale's thanks for their hospitable reception at Berlin. Prince Buelow. declared that the Kaiser the German people, the Government, and himself were animated by. the friendliest feelings towards Britain. ,

„ The Crown Prince, jri receiving the Council of the Congress on behalf of the Kaiser, said that he had followed the Union's labours and aims witb. a lively interest. He recognised that the * latter were increasing in importance, and hoped that the Congress would be followed by beneficent results in the .cause of peace, w-hich is and' will remain the basei of all true progress and civilisation. ' Its maintenance- had been throughout his reign his father's foremokt care.

A LABOUR DEPUTATION.

ADDRESS, BY A COMMONER.

Received 10.50, p.m.,. Sept, 21st. BERLIN, Sept. 21. Messrs Maddison, Shackleton, Crooks, and Ward, members of the Bouse of Commons, and other members" of th 4 Labour dentation who at* visiting,' Germany, oa behalf of bfrs of Parliament, and hy. 3000 trades unions and friendly society, officials, were given an ovation by un - orderly Anglo* German workers': peace -and arbitration demonstration on arrival at Berlin. The British Visitors addressed two gatherings, one of which, numbering 20,000, was organised by the Social Democratic Unions, and ' the' other of 1000 people, by the Liberal Trade Unions.

Mr Maddison laid emphasis on the fact that it was not a quiKiion of fear of Ciermany that had! made, the deputation organise for this- visit. Fear was neither a , British nor a Herman characteristic. Their aim was' simply to concord and mutually co-operate in combating Chauvinism, thus safeguarding pttice.