On Monday in a plenary sitting the Peace Conference adopted
the proposed Convention for the institution of an International Prize Court by thirty,seren votes to one (Brazil), with six abstentiona (Japan, Russia, Turkey, Siam, Venezuela, and Santo Domingo). The Conference also adopted by aeclama.tion, on the proposal of its President, a wen recommending (1) the assembly of a third Peace Con- ference after an interval similar to that which has elapsed since the first ; (g) the entrosting by the goverainents to a Special Committee, about two years before the date of the meeting, of the task of collecting practicable proposals which it is intended to submit to the Conference, of preparing a programme on which the governments would deeide soon enough to enable it to be seriously studied in each ceuntry, and, finally, of proposing a method of organisation and procedure for the Conference itself.
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