The Russian government requested in a letter the major powers to stop further armament and to forbade the used of new explosives. Further more she asked for a veto of using submerged torpedo boats (=submarines) and the provisions of the Convention of Geneve were valid for wounded men during sea wars. One day later wrote the same newspaper that the relations between France and Russia since this letter of peace were cooled down. In France was a week earlier the maiden trip of her [first] submarine ended. The Russian letter arrived on the same day that the newspaper Matin started a national action to built a second submarine while offering 500 francs as a start. Another Dutch newspaper the Vlissingse Courant dated 27 June reported that in the meeting the sub commission of the Peace Conference it had been impossible to obtain unanimity for a veto dealing with the building of submarines and submerged rams.
