Arizona republican., 1921-12-30
DELEGATES ACCEPT. ROOTS RESOLUTION
 LIN WARFARE RULES
American Delegates Demand Action By PolUers That Innocent LiUes Of Non-Com- batants Be Spared Attack From Under Sea Graft; Rules Sent To Committee For Re-drdfting

should difference arise between any
 of them, that the weapons which
 they possessed were not as in the
 past to be used without reference
 to the laws of God and man. This would greatly letract from the value of a submarine feet" he added, as when nations counted their weapons. they counted the use to be made of them as well as their number. M. Sarraut.. for the French group, made a formal declaration of the ac- ceptance of France of the principles of the first Root resolution. France, he said, was anxious to go farther than tke mere adoption of the reso- lution and bring into effect agree ment as to limitation of submarine
 warfare to established rules of naval warfare through a definite text which would combine all the assents
 of the powers represented in the com mittee.''
 The French delegate deprecated | what he said was an apprehension expressed by Mir. Balfour that certain countries might lin spite of every l thing yield to the temptation to mis- use the weapons remaining in their hands, For his own part, he added, he believed that these peoples will reflect deeply before violating such obligations and that if the commit tee had any doubt of this, debate l would not be worth while, and the committee would have but to leave 1 this table"
 l 'sOne must not deduce from abuses by Germany" NJ. Sarraut said, ''the
 idea that inevitably others would
 commit the same abuses With the
 first Root proposal on its way toward
 adoption, Secretary Hughes laid be-
 fore the committee the second reso-
 lution as follows:
 "Tha signatory powers recognize
 1 the practical impossibility of using
 submarines as commerce destroyer! . without violation of the requirement..
 universally accepted by civilized ma tions for the protection of the live . of neutrals and non-c combatants, an' ,, to the end that the prohibition o , ,, such use shall be universally accepte' as part of the law of nations, the, 2 declare their assent to such prohibi ! tion and invite all other nations t
 adhere thereto
 Change International Law
 MT. Hughes said that, as MT. Roo had explained, this was a proposi : tion to change the law as the frs ' resolution had attempted to stat "the law which had been ignored an Il whicl had been trampled under foo E but which nevertheless had been an = still was regarded as internations $ law The chairman added that e assumed the purpose of the resolu n tion 10 change the law was to mak $ this declaration of prohibition of sut ' marine warfare against merchaI
 craft a substitute for the first pro l. posal when the powers of the worl : all had concurred in that substitl d tion. Pending such concurrence, l l. explained, the first proposal wou l. be the governing law of nations ( n the subject of submarines as e1 Id pressed by the conference and l. which it asks adherence of powe ie outside it's circle.
 It, MT. Root agreed in this explanatio lg saying it required ''universay asse lg to establish a law of nations" b . that the first declaration 'creat,
 nothing. merely certifying to wh s. existed" while the second called le
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