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Show NO HOPE OF ABOLISHING WAR. M Russian Delegate to Peace Conference H Sounds Note of Warning. jfl Tho Hague. Tho second Inter- 9 national peaco confcrcnco opened Sat- flj unlay afternoon, Juno 1G. The scs- J slon lasted scarcely twenty minute. Bfl nnd was devoid of any Incident out- 9 sldo of tho prearranged programme. , It consisted simply of n short speech n of welconio by Dr. van Tots van H Goudrlnn, tho Netherlands foreign H minister; tho adoption of a resolution H to send greetings to ICmperor Nlch- H olns and Queen Wllhclmlna, und tho Vm eagerly nwaltod. speech ot M. .Nolldoff. In head Ot the Husslan delegation,- who ,wns unanimously chosen president ot B tho conference. m Tho keynote sounded by M. Nolldoff M on behalf of Russia wns u 'crushing H blow to tho puclflclsts. Thero. wns no M mincing of wotdx and" ultimate ills- armament and tho Inauguration of universal peaeo was rulcgatod to tho I Umbo of dieaniH. M. Nolldoff described this in "a star floating far ahovo this mundane H sphere to bo always striven for, but Ul never attained." H |