HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE.
United Press Association —Copyright THE HAGUE, June 17. M. Nelidoff, Russian delegate, was elected President of the Peace Convention. In the course of his speech oil assuming the Presidency, .je ; said he rejoiced at the increasing dispositon of States to resort to arbitration, but counselled the conference against being too ambitious, addin" that nations had the same passions and weaknesses as individuals. He remarked if the courts' of justice, despite the severity of the penalties wherewith they were armed, failed to prevent quarrels, it would be the same between nations, although the progress of conciliation and softening of manners might diminish the number of such cases. Three thousand attended an antimilitarist demonstration here. M.. Nieuwenhius, the Socialist leader, described the Hague Convention as a comedy of peace, and the convener, the Czar, as an antagonist of peace, he having dissolved the Duma the dav the Peace Conference opened. Other Socialists spoke.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 2
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154HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 2
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