The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-06-18
TAKE KINDLY
TO TRIBUNAL
GERMANS FAVOR HAGUE AR
BITRATION COURT.
SEVERAL CASES ON FILE
Judge Hollis Says Transval Cues
ton Not Among Those
Already Pending.

Berlin, June 15.-F. w. Hollis
United States member of The Hague
arbitration court, during an interview
today informed the correspondent OF
the Associated Press that The Hague
arbitration court had only just been
organized, by the appointment of the
last of the 55 judges, but several in
ternational questions are already be.
fore the court. The T%ransvaal ques
ton was certainly not one of these
because The Hague peace conference
had decided that the Boer states were
not sovereign states.
The court will not be in permanent
session, but will only act when suit.
able questions are l,S sented to it,
when the whole court VII select a
bench to adjudicate each matter in
question.
Nh. Hollis said both Count Won Bue-
low and Baron Won Richthofen, the
foreign minister, had received him in
the most kindly manner, sharing his
belief that The Hague court was like
the Magma Charta, an agreement
around which future international law
will crystalize. Mr.. Hollis believes
the emperor, the German government
and the German people are sincerely
in favor of The Hague arbitration
court on all questions which seem to
properly belong to it. He thinks this
is all the more remarkable because
Germany, during the. conference in
1899, had a number of serious, weighty
objections to urge against arbitration.
But she now has honestly altered her
opinion.
During the week the two questions
which mainly occupied public atten-
ton were the discussion in the Ital-
ian chamber of deputies relative to
the driebund and Great Britain's at
titude toward the question of Ger
many maintaining a garrison at
Shanghai.
The press expressed the opinion
that Signor Prinetti, the minister of
foreign affairs, cannot be relied upon
by the other powers forming the drie-
bund, though the newspapers are in
clined to believe that after Fridays
proceedings, the continuation of the
driebund is assured. Government cir
Giles never held a different opinion
after Premier Za~rnaradelli's declara-
lions to Count o Buelow.
Regarding the attitude Of the Brit
ish press towards the policy of Ger
many at Shanghai and Lord Gran
borne's statements in parliament the
German press and government con-
tinue to hold the opinion that Ger
many, by the very terms of the Yang
Use agreement is bound to protect the
Yang Use valley. Besides, Germany
has the same right to keep her troops
there as have Great Britain, France, |
Japan and Russia.
Referring to the Washington cable |
dispatch saying that the United |
States does not mean to protest.
against the maintaining of a German
garrison at Shanghai, the Frankfurt
ter Zeitung says:
"This is a very sensible conclusion
of the situation, since. Shanghai is
Chinese and not English, and the
country having the right to protect
it is China. Germany has precisely |
the same right to take care of her
Yang Use interests and commerce
that any other country has,"
A number of German papers during
the week intimate that Germany,
and Great Britain being practically |
powerless for the time, used strong
pressure to bring about the German
Yang Use agreement.
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