§ Mr. POLLOCKasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which are the various conventions drawn up at the Second Peace Conference, held at The Hague in the year 1907, that are referred to in the Preamble to the Second Peace Conference (Conventions) Bill?
The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. McKinnon Wood)The following are the conventions alluded to in the Preamble of the Bill. Their full texts are given in Parliamentary Paper No. 6, Miscellaneous, 1908: (1) Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes. (5) Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in war on land. (10) Convention for the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva convention to maritime war. (13) Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers in maritime war.