The foreign and Colonial delegates attending the Inter- national Conference
on the Safety of Life at Sea were entertained at dinner by the Government on Tuesday. The Conference was opened at the Foreign Office on Wednesday of last week. It is hoped that when a set of regulations for minimizing danger at sea has been drawn up it will be possible to get this Convention accepted as the condition upon which steamship companies may carry on their pas- senger traffic. Compliance with the regulations would entitle a ship to a certificate which would be recognized in all the countries party to the Convention. Lord Haldane at the dinner on Tuesday said that during the last three-quarters of a century one fact stood out gloriously among much that was disappointing: it was that science was not the science of one nation, but of the whole world. The time was when a meeting of representatives of nations could not have been gathered together even for such an innocent purpose as saving life at sea.
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