Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-01
THE LAWS OF WARFARE
They Are Considered by The
Peace Conference.
CAN EVILS OF WAR BE CURED?
A Revision of Geneva Convention Possible
-Morgnier scheme for Its Modification
May BE Observation-Disclosures May Be
Circular-Plan Considers Treatment of
Wounded.

THE HAGUE, May 26.-Both sec
lions of the committee on the laws of
warfare of the peace conference met
separately today and began the exam
ination of the subjects submitted to
them, the Red Cross section discus
sing paragraph No. 5, and paragraph
No. of the circular of Count Mura-
yief, Russian minister OF foreign at
fairs, and the Brussels conference sec
ton discussing paragraph No. Z.
Both sections met subsequently and
discussed the question of competence
as regarding the scheme for the revls'
len of the Geneva convention, known
as the Morgnier scheme.
The Morgnier scheme comprises
modification of the Geneva conven-
ton in Connection with wounded and
sick prisoners, members of the mill
tary hospital service, conveys for the
wounded, ambulances, hospitals, prop
erty belonging to neutral persons re-
ligious and medical staffs and kin
dred subjects. The scheme applies
equally to land and sea warfare.
1T was proposed to submit the
scheme to another committee for revl-
sion and question was then raised
whether the conference was comDe-
tent to deal with the matter. Those
who took a negative view argued that
the conference had decided in princl-
pie and all the governments repre-
sented had agreed that nothing should
be submitted to the conference be-
yond the eight points in the circular
of Count Muravieff They content led
that if the conference once infrinSed
this rule a precedent would be ere
ated, leading to numerous difficulties,
including probably the springing OF
the Armenian, Macedonian and sim
liar questions upon the conference.
1t was also pointed out by the OPP
ponents of the proposal to refer that
as the Morgnier scheme dealt mostly
with the wounded and hospitals. it
would be impossible to discuss he
proposed notifications effectively
without the cooperation of doctors,
VINO alone would be capable of de i'd
ing many of the points in issue.
AS a matter of fact there is no nan
of medical training among the dele-
gates. The committee finally ad-
journed without reaching a decision.
There is no truth in the statement
that a proposal has been submitted
to the conference to abrogate the
provisions of the Declaration of Paris,
1886, regarding the protection of 1ri-
vate property in time Of war.
BERLIN, May 26.-The Berliner
Neuesten Nachrichten, in an editor
ial denying that Germany is opposing
the idea of an arbitration tribunal
at the peace conference, suggests that
the attitude of Great Britain and the
United States in recent years, as
shown by the Venezuelan and Alaskan
disputes, has not been favorable to
arbitration, although Gs the paper
says, they are not posing as its spe-
cial champions"
Madame Selenka, the famous peace
advocate and promoter of the Wo
mans Peace crusade, yesterday pre-
sented to NJ De Staal president of
the conference and head of the Rus
sian delegation, an illustrated album
containing the text of resolutions in
favor of peace adopted by meetings
representing several millions of wo-
men. The album was accompanied
by an address, In the name of the
women of eighteen nations" saluting
the conference, assuring the delegates
of the faith of the memorialistS IN
the results Of it's labors, begging that
the hopes of the people might not be
deceived and that the conference
would decide that the evils of war
could be cured.