Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-31
VIEWS ON THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
London Morning Papers Devote Space
to Its Work.

| LONDON, July 31.-The morning papers
| all devote space to the closing of the peace
| conference. The Standard says:
| ut must be source of pride to Russia
| to know that she carried with her. in
agreeing to all the conventions, declara-
| lions and resolutions majority of the ma
| tions represented. True, the minority
| which make important exceptions and
| reservations, includes such powers as Great
Britain, the United States, Germany, Aus
tria, Japan and Italy. Still, Russia can
/ console herself with the support not only
| OF France, Belgium. Bolivia and Brazil
| whose opinions on such topics as the laws
| OF maritime warfare, the limitation of the
| caiiDer OF naval ordnance and the pattern
| OF rifle bullets, must carry weight, even If
| they conflict with the British admiralty
and the German war office"
The Daily News says:
| Inc chief work was. of course, the def
mite, unanimous assent of the assembled
states to arbitration as a substitute for
| war The pope's letter, too, must have an
! excellent effect upon Roman Catholic coun-
tries, and Protestants will read it with
leehngS OF nigh esteem for the sincerity of
| the aged pontiff, who in language worthy
or his high station, acknowledges the duty
! or the church to preserve the peace of the
! world.
w. T, Stead says, in the Daily News:
The American delegation has been one
of the most useful elements in the parlia-
ment. Ii the old traditional policy of
America had been construed with such Sc
verify as to forbid the presence of Ameri-
can delegates at the international gather
ing the world would have been the loser.
Andrew D. White, its chief held himself
much In the background, but did not spare
effort privately to bring about a good UNI
derstanding between the representatives of
the powers.
But the man of the American delegation
who left much the deepest mark upon the
conference and its work the
lawyer, Mr.. Hollis secretary of the deega-
ton. Mr.. Hollis was comparatively I'M
known before the conference, but it had
hardly come together before his energy
and his determination compelled all his
colleagues to feel that he was one of the
strong men of the conference. Owing to
his appointment on the comite examen he
was able to play much more conspicuous
role than any other of the American dele
cation, and he made TT very best use of
THIS unique opportunity. Apart from the
article introducing the special mediation,
which bears his name, he was chiefly in
strumental in introducing the principle of
revision into the arbitration convention In
this he was ably seconded by Seth Low,
whose exceptional abilities had unfortu-
nately little opportunity for exercise But,
nevertheless, he impressed his colleagues
very favOraby.
Captains Mahan and Crozier made hosts
o. friends and stuck to their guns man
fully, or rather one stuck to his asphyxiat-
ing shells and the other to his expanding
bullet, with a resolution and pertinacty
which commanded the admiration even of
those who opposed them"
The Hague correspondent of the Times
credits the United States with signing all
the conventions and declarations except
the declaration concerning the introduction
OF projectiles containing asphyxiating gases
and says:
The signature of most, If not all, of the
states which We're withheld from the arbi-
tration convention will be secured after
the revised text has been duly examined"