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Show ACCOMPLISHED BY THE HAGUE. "What has been accomplished by The Haru-peace Haru-peace tr-aty since it has gone into ejteet. .m l wiiT can I inform myself o;i the subject? .1. K. W. ' The eonch'sioiis arrixed t by the delegates t the international conference were embodied in a: act, signed July 2t. 1 !!, by all the states n present ed. Thi act lonsists'of three treaties or enven tions, three formal declarations and six resolution The conventions relate to the pacific adjustment o international disputes, the laws and usages r.f w.-: on land and ihe adaptation of ihe rules of maritlnv warfare to rtie principles of the general eonventio; of The declarations involve the p; otiiiij' ion o the use of projectiles or explosives from balloon1 for a period of riv; years (accepted unanimously) ' of the employment of projectiles which diffuse ;n phyxiating or other deleterious gases (not aeceptej by England and the t'niied Sia'cs). .-Hid rhc u-e o bullets which "xpand or flatten ea-ily in the humai body. In the six resolutions the. conference ex presses certain opinions on a number of genera questions. With a view to the settlement of dis . ' pules between slates by arbitration a perruauen ; . court of arbitration was created. This is a tribunn composed of persons eminent for their knowlerlgi ;' of international law and chosen by the parties con cerned from a permanent list of arbitrators nom ; : t inated by the signatory powers. Each power ma; nominate not more than four members, whose tern of office is six years. In order to const iiute tin court for a particular ca-c. each party to Hie con r troversy chooses two arbitrator--, either from tin list of erman( nt menders or from .persons w'no an not members, and these choose i.n umpire. Tin first resort to the permanent convr of arbi! ratiot -was- niiwle by the I'nted States el f.-4,Mu. . in -u j for the settlement of-the controversy in neard H , ' ' the Pius fund claims. Frederick W. HoIIs. R ( L a member of the conference from the Lnited State-t has written "The Peace Conference ijt The II agin and Its Bearings on International Law ano? Poiie,' (1000). In the preface he avoavs his conviction. tha: the conference "accomplished a great and glorioui result, not only in the humanizing of warfare an the certification of the laws of war. but. above all, ii the promulgation of the Magna C'harta of Interna, tional law, the binding together of the civiliznj powers in a federation for justice and ttie estah lishment of a permanent international court o) arbitration.'' The official records have nor yet beei; published in the English language. Meanwhili Russia and Japan are trying to adjust tneir differ i ences in the old-fashioned way. Xew York Sun. |