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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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oceedingsand settled also the procedm-e in questions ofprize bounty and the distribution of prizemoneys. It was under these Rules, supple-mented by the ancient practice of the Court ofAdmiralty and by the decision of the Presidentin doubtful cases, that the procedure of theBritish Prize Courts was regulated during theGreat War. These Orders were varied incertain particulars from time to time duringthe war by Order in Council. By a Notificationof October 8, 1914, issued by the Colonial Office,the constitution of Prize Courts in theDominions oversea was announced. TheseCourts were to sit, if necessary, at Sydney,jNIelbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Albany, Hobart,Nassau, Hamilton (Bermuda), Georgetown(British Guiana), Belsize (British Honduras),Quebec, Halifax, St. Johns (Nova Scotia),Victoria (British Columbia), Chariot tet own(Prince Edward Island), Colombo, Stanley(Falkland Islands), Suva (Fiji), Gibraltar, HongKong, Kingstown (Jamaica), Antigua (Lee\\m-d THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAB. HU
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THE GERMANIA.Herr Knipp von Bohlens Racing Yacht, condemned in British Prize Court, October, 1915. IslanrLs), Valetta (Malta), Port Louis (Mau-ritias), St. .Johns (Xewfoundlanfl), Dunedin,Wellington, Chri.stchurch, Auckland (NowZealand), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Capetown,Durban, Singapore, Port of Spain (Trinidad),St. Lucia, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Karachi,Rangoon, Aden in the Rod Sea. It was a nobleli»t, a sonoroas tribute to the sea power and theworld power of an empire that wears in itsdia<^lem the Seven Seas ; this list has a Miltonicnote, rolling out, in rnultituflinous syllables ofevery tongue and race, the liistory of sea-toil,sea-sorrow and sea triumph through thrwfcenturifrs of time, ea<;h name recalling tlicendless a .sf>niiof the Iri/Ji Cf>urt, <lecisions of the JJorninioriH.*Thus th« case of the Hirllas, a C

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