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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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alities and to be blindedto the realities of the case. Consequently thecargoes (save such part as was for use inScandinavia) were condemned as lawful prize.It was a prize that would have rejoiced theheart of Drake or any other man who eversailed the Spanish main in search of goldengalleons ; perhaps the greatest prize thatever sailed the seas, these Falstaffian galleonsof lard. A reckless decision of the Hambiirg Prize master had conversation with the customsofficer. Early next morning he weighed anchorand proceeded under way for Granton, eightmiles farther up the Forth, and on this voyagewas captvu-ed by H.M.S. Ringdove in territorialwaters. Was the ship captured at sea or inport ? It was urged that the ship was capturedin port, and was therefore only subject todetention. The President allowed the ownerto claim the benefit of the Hague Conventionon the subject in notable words : The practice should conform to sound ideas of whatis fair and just. When a sea of passions rises and rages
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SHIPS CUTTER ON THE WAYCourt in April 1915, the ca«o of the Maria, inwhich wheat 8hippe<I before the war to Irelandfrom the United State« on a Dutch ship wa«f;ondernnfKl, wa,s quoted in the cawe of theKim by Sir Surnuel Evanw a8 an example ofthe atute with which a Prize Court in Germany har:lat it« way through bona fide commercialtranfiactionx when dealing with foodHtiiffscarried by neutral voHBelH. The ca«f) of t?io Mciwe, a German merchantHailing nlup of the port o! PJianderrnoor, wukof a conHi(Jundfor iJomjHH in the Firth of Forth. liotwefin7 and 9 rif the clock on the evfining of AuguHt 4,KJH, the whip Hrrive<l near MorriHonn Havenand anchoffxl n mile off the ck^^U, nnd the TO EXAMINE A MERCHANTMAN. as a natural result of such a calamitous series of warsas tho present it behoves a Court of Justice to preservea cftlrn and cquuhle attitude in all oontrov<Tsies whichcome before it for de

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