Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-09-19 | Page 9 | Suggests Jurists as Inquiry Court

SUGGESTS JURISTS AS INQUIRY COURT LONDON. Sept. IS. W:4 p. in. An in- . quiry by American jurists into the nUo- -gntions nf German disregard of the rules I of civilized warfare is suggested by the Weekly Spectator in its current issiif. "Kndoubtedl v American .jurists would command most general confidence." tbe Spectator savs. "We cannot ask President Presi-dent Wilson or the American government to appoint such a committee nf inquiry. They would rui turally he afraid of a n-noyliig n-noyliig the Gei-man government by so doinsr' and of imperiling that strin nni-iralltV nni-iralltV wnlfh they desire tr mninJnin In tlir case nf the German empire. W.- do 'not see. however, why the Fren.-b. British Brit-ish a nd Belgian governments shm:ld not privatelv invite three American Juries of I i-itrli distinction to nr.ertnke the work ! of discovering whether the Germans have respected and are respecting the agree- ment made at The Hague in 1S99 and ! 19Q7, and also those rules of civilized ' warfare which generally are respected by belligerents, and to report whether any infringements of these conventions and these rules have taken place." .