HAGUE CONVENTION ASSEMBLES.

West Coast Times, Issue 14141, 18 June 1907, Page 3

HAGUE CONVENTION ASSEMBLES.

Thb Hague, July 17 , The International Peace Convection baa assembled at The Hague. M. Taotelp, Premier of Hollaud, welcomed the delegates and delivered a for* ooal inaugural address. M. Nelidoff (the Russian delegate") has been elected President of the Peace Convention In the course of hid speech in assuming his position, the President fad Whe rejoiced at the increasing disposition of States to resort to arbi' ration, but he counselled the Conference against being tooaabitious. M. Nelidoff added : v Nations have the Dime passions and weaknesses as individuils. If the courts of jußtioe, despite

the severity ot the p^nal ieswbere*it they are armed, failed to prcve q-iarrels, it would ba the same betwee nations ; although the progress of concili ation and the softening of mat nor ought to diminish such oases."