| Show GOOD RESULT IS ISNOW NOW EXPECTED American Propositions Find Favor With Delegates to Hague Conference CARNEGIE PEACE PALACE DUTCH ARRANGING AN IMPOSING PROGRAM The Hague July Ing the views held In some quarters concerning the peace confer conference conference ence and hoe work the members of the American delegation feel confident that some good will be reached in inthe inthe the exchange of opinions among the plenipotentiaries of the countries rep represented represented resented It now appears that all of the American propositions will be satis satisfactorily received The question of the immunity of private property at sea although bitterly opposed will have a considerable majority In the vote yote next seek eek and this will be a further step toward the adoption of this principle In another conference The rules re rek k garding the bombardment of fled fied towns villages etc originally pre presented presented by America Americ will be substantial substantially ly adopted with the approval of the proposal drawn up by the Italian gation atlon bringing Into harmony the dl dif different ferent views on this subject The sug suggestion suggestion regarding the collection ot of pe pecuniary pecuniary debts without the use ot of force will be supported by all of the great powers and the proposal con cont concerning t the establishment of a perma font court of arbitration and the e of the use ot of unnecessarily cruel bullets have been favorably received Finally In a plenary sitting the United States will present a plan for forthe forthe the permanency ot of the conference itself Itsel as an Institution the holding of pen peri periodic odlo meetings and the organization of a program Palace of Peace The Dutch Peace league Is organizIng Ing an Imposing program on the occa occasion occasion sion ot of the Inauguration of Andrew Carnegles palace of peace The pro program program gram will Include an allegorical pro procession procession cession representing all the peoples of the world passing before the altar ot of peace and renouncing Jig their About 1500 persons will take part vart In Inthe Inthe the procession and it Is expected that about spectators will be present The American proposition relating to ships of war reads A warship must be commanded b by bya n a commissioned officer with a crew subject to military discipline In time of war no merchantman can be trans transferred transferred into a warship except It be bel l commanded and equipped as before and this transformation can only onh occur In the territorial waters of the state of which the tho owner ot of the vessel is a sub subject jeet or in territorial waters under the 2 effective control of the military forces of such a state Another American proposition states first that arms of war ammunition provisions and objects only employed for military purposes or milita military establishments establishments form absolute contraband of war second that conditional contra contraband contraband band consists In provisions materials J and objects employed ed both In peace and war and which because of their char character character acter special quality or quantity are necessary for military purposes and andare andare are destined to the armed forces or to military establishments of the enem enemy third that a of the objects and pro provisions provisions visions to be Included In either ot of said categories must be published by the belligerents and notification ot of such must be made to neutrals or their di diplomatic diplomatic representatives The capture or confiscation of con contraband contraband the proposition states cannot occur until such notification has been made |
