Blockade and Sea Power: The Blockade, 1914-1919, and Its Significance for a World State

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Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1924 - 449 páginas
 

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Página 345 - The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations.
Página 21 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Página 411 - The transfer of an enemy vessel to a neutral flag effected after the outbreak of hostilities, is void unless it is proved that such transfer was not made in order to evade the consequences to which an enemy vessel, as such, is exposed.
Página 407 - Government; (3) If she is in the exclusive employment of the enemy Government; (4) If she is exclusively engaged at the time either In the transport of enemy troops or in the transmission of intelligence In the Interest of the enemy. In the cases covered by the present Article, goods belonging to the owner of the vessel are likewise liable to condemnation.
Página 339 - THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous...
Página 357 - Should any Member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13, or IB, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the League...
Página 421 - A vessel carrying contraband may be condemned if the contraband, reckoned either by value, weight, volume, or freight, forms more than half the cargo.
Página 28 - Blockade, including the questions as to the locality where seizure can be effected, and the notice that is necessary before a ship can be seized; [| c) The doctrine of continuous voyage in respect both of contraband and of blockade; || d) The legality of the destruction of neutral vessels prior to their condemnation by a Prize Court; || e) The rules as to neutral ships or persons rendering „unneutral service...
Página 395 - If the operations of the blockading Power, or of the naval authorities acting in its name, do not tally with the particulars, which, in accordance with Article 9 (1) and (2), must be inserted in the declaration of blockade, the declaration is void, and a new declaration is necessary in order to make the blockade operative.
Página 421 - ... to exercise their belligerent rights at sea in strict accordance with the law of nations; And whereas on account of the changed conditions of commerce and the diversity of practice doubts might arise in certain matters as to the rules which His Majesty and his allies regard as being in conformity with the law of nations...

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