Washington, Feb. 21.
Declaring that the present chaotic state of the Maritime Law stitutes an incentive to great naval armaments, Senator Borah, chait-man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has tabled a solution in the Senate urging a Statement and codification of the laws governing thd conduct of belligerents and neutrals at xen in me of War.
The resolution declares that the leading maritime Powers owe it to the cause of peace to effect such a re-statement prior to the meeting of the Disarmament Gonference in 1931. Under the present conditions, it declares, the seas are subject to no definite rules except force and commerce to no ultimate protection except battle-fleets—Reuter.
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