PEACE CONFERENCE.
United Press Association —Copyright THE HAGUE, July 17. At the Peace Convention the Third Committee unproved the proposal to adopt the Geneva Convention in maritime warfare. Venezuela refuses to obey the award of the Hague Court, condemning her to pay ten million francs to the Belgian creditors. Received July 18, 10.3 p.m. THE HAGUE, July. 18.
At the Peace Convention Germany, Austria, Italy,- Switzerland, Sweden. Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba, Ecuador, Hayti, San Domingo, China, Siam, Persia, and Turkey voted in the fourth committee in favor of the United States proposal for the inviolability of private property at sea. Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, San Salvador, and Montnegro voted against the proposal China abstained from voting, and there were eleven absentees. This amounts to a negative, since an absolute majority is necessary.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2136, 19 July 1907, Page 2
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