The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-27
WILL ACCEPT ARBITRATION.
schwarzhon PuIverixes Col. JiIin-
skis Arguments.

skis Arguments.
London, June 27.-The correspondent of
the Daily News at The Hague says:
"The German delegates to-day privately
Informed their colleagues that they had re.
ceived instructions to accept the principle
Of a permanent tribunal of arbitration as
outlined in the Auglo-Amerlcan plans,
This and the speech of Col Gross Won
schwarzhoff, plainly intimating that Ger
many had made up her mind against the
Russian idea of disarmament and had
reached the conclusion that the time had
arrived to tell the world So are the two
great events of the whole conference.
To-day 1 interviewed many delegates,
some friendly to Germany; others hostile.
They were unanimous in declaring the
Schwarhoff speech a smashing blow, pull
verizing the argument of Gen. Denber
Portugal and Col. Jilinski.
The effect was tremendous within the
conference when Schwarzhoff pointedly ex-
planned, Germany is not ruined. On the
contrary, her wealth, 'contentedness and
standard of life Che used these English
words) are daily increasing.
Altogether, his speech was the greatest
sensation of the conference, heretofore no
body expecting Germany to reject the Rus
san proposals IN so DfQSQu6 ana uncOQ0l-
tional manner"
When the disarmament proposals came
on, the first feeling of most of the mem
bers was to reject everything forthwith.
NJ deStaal, seeing this, went up to the
chairman and asked him to propose a sub
committee On the division all the dele
gates voted for the postponement of the
consideration of military disarmament I'M
til after the report of the Subcommittee,
except those of Germany and Austria,
who voted for its immediate considera-
ton, which would have meant immediate
rejection. The Swiss delegate abstained
from voting and the United States at first
sided with Germany, but Capt. Crozier was
finally talked over and he voted with the
majority.
German View of 1t.
col. Gross Won Schwarzhoff spoke for
over half an hour with overpowerins
frankness. His speech was considered ad-
mrable, and the members of the confer
ence predict that he has a future. He
said the reduction of peace forces in no
way implied a corresponding reduction
of offensive power. Both forces might be
kept stationary and country still be in
creasng its offensive power. Length of
military service, service by deputy, rail-
ways rapidty of mobilization and eco
nomical conditions were all factors making
up the military strength of a country,
and to take one term only of the problem
and TO argue that reducing forces all
round would leave the various countries
on the same relative footing toward one
another as before, however, plausible as
1t might appear to.
an outsider, was to the military expert
so manifest an absurdity that he 0he
speaker wondered it had been put for
ward. presumably in earnest.
The Russians he said, call Siberia
a colony, but in European war they would
bring every Siberian regiment to Europe
by rail-
Russia's Poor Debaters.
when the German delegate sat down
every one thought What will the poor
Russians say?' and the reply of Col. Jilins-
XII showed they we're tanner than ever. In
deed, one noticeable feature of the con-
ference is the utter inferiority of the Rus
slams in debate. Perhaps it is only an
accident but not single member of the
Russian delegation, Prof. de Martens not
excepted, seems able to fight contro-
Versy before couple of dozen persons.
The Russian case may be strong or weak,
put they do not appear TO know their
brief. This has struck even the neutral
delegates. If military disarmament halts,
naval disarmament is tame.
Inc arbitration committee sat for three
hours to-day. Germany will accept the
permanent court. subject perhaps TO some
notifications. Inter ALA, she wants the
privileges for the great Powers of naming
more than two on the list of judges, the
smaller powers nominating only two.
The American scheme for the revision
OF sentence. already published. came on.
There was no vote, but the feeling was
that the scheme had been insuficiently
prepared.
Prof. Assers' motion, already published,
enabling the s gnatories of an international
treaty, such as the postal union. to become
third parties in a litigation between sigma
tories was adopted unanimously. The i'm
portance of this article is that 1t opens the
door for the universal interpretations of
controversial points in treaties. The con-
terence NAV last another three weeks