The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-21
PEACE ENTHUSIASTS AT WAR
FIERCE ATTACKS on CONFERENCE
Ar THE HAGUE.
lnternationalis Paper Accuses England OF
Causing FiascO-PIenary Session Ex-
tends Red Cross lmmunIties to Hos
pttsl a Wild Proposals Made.

- Mt8V Sntus -WI0 Pr0DOnnIN WM0es
special Cable Despatch 10 The sun.
The HAGUE. July 20.-The peace en-
thusiasts here have declared open war on
the peace conference. They chose to-day.
which was fixed for the third plena ry ses-
sion since the convocation five weeks ago.
to begin a public celebration Of their wrath.
The baroness Won Suttner. an enthusiast
tic Austrian lady who shared in a Nobel
peace prize, advertises to-day in the pub
LEGATION For nterndt'ondtsm that on Monday
she will deliver a discourse on THE Report
Presented by the Commission Zero" This
sarcasm upon the nebulous reports that
the commissions Of the conference have
hitherto given out Is more violently re-
nected in a manifesto OF the same paper
which says that the cause Of peace has been
killed In the house Of it's friends, and adds:
We learn to-day that IL will not nave even
a first class funeral. In the public plenary
session IL will be hidden away
The documen which bases a violent
diatribe on what it calls this fiasco" blames
h British Government and its dele gates
to The Hague. They are accused OF con-
Quoting their peace campaign as the last
English Government conducted the Trans
vaal campaign. disregarding all warnings
that they would knock their heads against
the wall. II says: They have made no
propaganda. and by their silence they have
killed their subject"
This despairing view will not be much
modified by to-day's proceedings in the
plensry session. IL was convoked to
ratify the only piece Of work accomplished
in five weeks, and this modest achievement
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principles OF the Geneva Convention Of
1893 relative 20 land warfare. On all other
questions there have been such serious
reservations n such considerable minor
tiles that a final ratification vote has not
been attempted.
There we're no negatives to-day and the
only abstentions we're Uruguay and CO.
lombia. whose representatives CHANGED to
be away from The Hague
The convention adopted to-day gives
a legal status and protection to vessels
used especially and solely to render suocor
to the wounded. sick and shipwrccked
during war, The names of such vessels
must be communicated az the opening or
during the progress Of hostilities to the
respective belligerents. When they Oon-
form to the rule sanctioned to-day they
~ a. ~" Noptu'C'
The only reservation Of a serious charac-
ter came from Great Britain upon the
rule that any belligerent warship can
claim the return Of its sick. wounde or
shipwrecked from not only hospital ships.
but commercial ships Of any nationality.
Englsnd's chief delegate in the interest OF
her commercial marine declared that this
lsst clause needed clear definition. other
wise innocent shipping might needlessly
be detained in voyages. TO the owners
loss.
The only other reservation was Of a tech
nioai nature from Turkey and Persia.
whose religion forbids them to hoist the
Red Cross. which, the symboiof the Geneva
convention. But they declare themselves
willing 10 respect it IL the others reciprocate
by respecting the Star and Crescent and
the lion and Red Sun respectively.
Among the addresses from the outside
presented to the conference there was an
offer from a Dutch woman artist MmA
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n"'m' W pieS0n' Poi'iat vi '"o
Gar as the inlt'ator OF the co inference.