The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-27

La Duma est morte. Vive Ia
Dumar' With this phrase Sir
H Campbell-Bannerman drove home
ton. from st. Petersburg to London
today. Welcoming, in the Royal Cha m
Der of the Palace of Westminster the
600 delegates of the Inter-ParIianlen-
tary Union, whose cause is peace, Sir
Henry Campbell Zimmerman, in the
course of an eloquent and impressive
speech, delivered in French uttered this
dramatic paraphrase of "Vive lie Roll"
| Every eye was turned to the corner
where the members of the Duma, with
| several Russian ladies sat. With the
! cry of Long live the Duma." which
rang from Sir Henry's lips, the au-
| dience sprang to their feet and cheered
again and again.
| Nobody was prepared for the almost
! tragic scene that shortly followed The
usual courtesies and a vote of thanks
| to Sir Henry having been proposed by
Count Albert Apponyi hungary.
Professor NJ. Kovalevsky a delegate of
the Duma, assembled the tribune, and,
speaking in French with alternate
passion and emotion, he announced,
amid sympathetic murmurs, that the
mission of his colleagues and himself
was at an end-it had been roughly |
and rudely brought to an untimely end. !
Our sentiment he said, remains the
same, but our duty is no longer the /!
same. We must return at once to our
own country and join in the struggle |
for the maintenance and triumph |
of those principles, of liberty and !
inc fIa+
future. as in the present, to join hearth t
ly and cordially with your great en-
deavors for international peace"
Loud and prolonged cheers greeted
this declaration. and, rejoining his col
leagues, the full meaning of the decia-I
ration at once dawned upon the assem-
bly, of Parliamentarians as the six
members of the Duma left their seats.
and with the ladies who accompanied
them passed down an avenue of sym
pathizers through the crowded cham
Der. The audience gaZed dunfounded.
But no sooner had the doors swung
upon the self-expelled delegates than
the assembly, amid enthusiasm, re-
solved that the Russian delegates
should remain, and be regarded as
members of thes Peace Conference of
the World whether they returned to
their deliberations or not.
THE PRESIDENTS WELCOME.
This scene was, however, but the
most outstanding OF several of a strik-
ing character. Apart altogether from
the fact that this is the fourteenth an
nual Conference of the Inter-Parlia-
Union and that the attendance
is a record one there was the nota BILE
incident that the British Prime Minis
ter moved his cosmopolitan audience
gathered from almost every civilized
nation of the world-to a wealth of en-
thusiasm by his strenuous and uncom- I
promising declarations for peace, de-
ivered, moreover with facilityTin. a
tongue that called for no Interpreter.
AThe great interest that was mani r
tested in the proceedings, the more es- {
pecially amongst the foreign popula- i
ton of London. was shown in the |
crowd that gathered around the en- Y
trance to the House of Lords to watch |
the delegates arrive.
Lord Weardaie. in welcoming the +
delegates, extended special recogni- {
ton to the representatives of the Rus !
sian Durna, and in the course of his q
of the cause of peace alluded 3
to the efforts of King Edward and the :
Presidents of the French and American /,
Republics
MESSAGE FROM THE KING. 7
The Prime Minister, who was most ]
cordially received was cneered again Y
and again when he commenced his
speech in French. The right hon. gen {
tleman remarked that, speaking as the {
head of the Government of this coun- q
try, he had been authorized by the /
K ing to extend to the delegates the .
of the nation. Amid renew f
ed applause. Sir Henry remarked that 6
they all knew his Majesty was a great 7
worker in the cause of peace; and he ;
then passed on to express his own
opinion that the Parliaments of the
world We're representative of the ma
tons of the world-of the people, men
and women alike. .
WAR STUPID AND BARRARIC
The objects of the Parliaments and I
the Governments of the world pro-
ceeded Sir Henry, We're to emphasized 4
this position. Proceeding. the Prime
adverted to the advance the .
cause of peace had made amongst the
civilized nations of the world, and in