PEACE CONFERENCE.
United Press Association—Copyright THE HAGUE, July 15. Tho Peace Conference’s fourth committee discussed at great length the transformation of merchantmen into warships. Austria proposed that a vessel once transloimed must remain so throughout the war, in order to prevent naval hermaphroditism. Germany urged that transformation should bo prohibited in neutral waters, though permissible in the open sea.
Britain contended that transformation, being an act of sovereignty’, coukl only be effected at home. France suggested to put into publication each act of conversion, and notification thereof to neutrals.
llie United States Refines absolute contraband as arms, ammunition and objects destined for the enemy’s military establishments, and conditional contraband as objects which by reason of their quantity and quality if destined for the enemy’s use must be regarded as contraband. The United States insist that belligerents supply neutrals with a list of objects regarded as absolute and conditional contraband twenty-tour hours before the right to seizure accrues.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 2
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157PEACE CONFERENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 2
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