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Show PLAN SUBMITTED TO REVISE RULES WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. Venezuela has formally proposed to all the neutral governments of Europe and Asia, as well as the two Americas, that a conference be held in Washington to revise or supplement sup-plement the rules of international law respecting the rights of neutrals in the present war. The plan provides that the governing board of the Pan-American union, consisting con-sisting of the diplomatic representatives of all the American republics, should draft a programme for the conference or congress and that the rules finally agreed upon by all the neutrals should tn turn be submitted to the belligerents. |