HC Deb 28 March 1901 vol 92 c45
MR. HERBERT LEWIS (Flint Boroughs)

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government now accept the laws and usages of war settled at the Hague Conference as forming the usages which distinguish civilised from barbarous warfare.

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

Of course this Government accepts the principle to which it gave its assent at the Hague Conference.

MR. FLYNN

But not the practice.