Show THE wie POWERS TO participate IN conference invitation has been extended by england and the united states will be ba represented at the conference washington Washing tom great britain has extended an all invitation to tile tho great maritime powers to participate in a conference at london preferably next fall to determine it pop possible sible on definite principles of maritime inter national law capable of being applied by the proposed prize court provided lor at the last hague conference the united states will be represent e ed d at this thib conference according toa announcement at the state department while the conference Is des 1 ignatee as informal upon its deliberations erat ions and conclusions will un depend the fate of the proposed international prize court should the conference of experts succeed in formulating a code of maritime law which shall become international by being ac accepted by the maritime pol powers vers the success of the proposed court would seem assured in the meantime meant it is predicted in an authoritative quarter that all governments will refrain from ratifying the hague treaty establishing the prize court the precise difficulty dl which the british government Is seeking to have remedied through the conference lies in the existence of tho the continental tin maritime law and the consequent question of which of these systems shall be administered in any given case before the court should the matter of settling this question be left to the court the powers would in effect be legislative as well a as s judicial a proposition which great brit aln declines to adhere to both russia and japan declined to sign tho tha prize court agreement at the hague precisely on the same ground |