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HONGKONG GOVERNMENT
SIX PER CENT. WAR LOAN OF 1916.
ISSUE OF $5,000,000 HONGKONG
CURRENCY SIX PER QENT: BONDS to Bearer authorised by the War Loan Ordinance 1910.
The Proceeds of the Loan will be banded
ore to the Imperial Government
■"War Contribution from the
Colony of Hongkong.
The Principal and Interest of this Loan ars gisranteed by 'the Governmant of Hongkong and are secured by the Karonpes of, the Colony.
Price of Issus-$100. Per Cont..
Interest payable-1st May and lat
November,
First Coupon for full sie moutha interest payable-1st May 191%.
Principal repayable at par on-ist
November 1928, on at the optim of
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namissible, and the attempt of a sub- marine to visit or captare a inerchantmau is not a legitimate act of war
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VERCLANTSEN'S RIGHT OF DEFENCE. e)-lo denying the right of a ver chantman to delend itself againe a submarine, the German authorities not
SOLE PROFEITOES OF Mr. Munroe Smith, Proles of Roman only assume that submarine war vessels. Law and Comparative Jurisprudence are entitled to do anything that super TAKASHIMA OCHT, MUTABE. Columbia University, says:
marins, war vessels may do, but they KISHIDAKE" TOSHINÖTANI In executing the Captain of a British dubly disregard the existing miles of HOJO,NAMAZUTA, SAYO.KANADA, tnternational laïc applicable to merebaSHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI merchant vessel (Captain Fryars) for an vessels. It is well settled that a mèr. alleged attempt to ram, a German subchantmon has the right to defend itself" marine, and in socking to justify, the minst threatened capture. In so doing, execution. the German authorities it of epuras" takes certain risks. I Becomes combatant, and it may be sunk in the combat. It captured, how ever, ita affcery and a me to be treated as prisoners of war...
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(1)That submarines may legitimately be used-to-visit-search, and capture merchant vesels; and
(2.) That'a merchant vessel nemaeed f with capture by
war vessel has ac right so defend itself..
Neither of these assumptions is justi. fed by the rules of existing international
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It is contended by the German authorities that these rules grew up under conditions, which no longer exist; that they have become unterscnable and should be regarded as, obsolete, They were established when piracy was cife they were perpetuated during the period (1)-For the use of submarines against when privateering was admissible; in merchant vesels, whether to prevent carriage of contraband goods or blockadecent times when merchantmen are threatened with capture only by regular running by neutral vessels, or to capture enemy vessels, there was at the outbreak warships those rules have not been of the present world war no precedent.
invoked or applied. The merchantman's This leakly recognized by Germanight of resistance has been extinguished- diplomatists.
by non-use. In the place of these obsolete mited to our Department of State by the rules of sea warfare, the Germans woulă Gennan Ambassader at Washington on land warfare. On land civilians may not set the opposite rules long established in March 8th. 1910, its amid that the sub-defend themselves against regular military roaring was new weapon, the use of forces. France-tireurs, guerillas, snipers which had not been regulated by inter national law. From this premise CountThey may lawfully bo sbot, not only in ara bot entitled to be treated as soldiers. Bernstort draws the amazing gonclusion combat, bat siter capture. that, in choosing this weapon to prey The German reasoning, is undeniably upon the enemy's commerce, Germany logical. The arguments advanced might SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Co "could, not, and did not violate well be addressed to an international | existing rule."
conference for the revision of the laws of maritime warfare. Even there, how. As a master of fact, in vaing this however, they might not prove convincing.. weapon against merchant vessels, Ger In such a conference it would, of course, bay continuously disregarded be pointed out that, if son warfare is to stablished usage and violated existing be assimilated to land warfare, privately roles. Leaving out of account its claim owned ships should be exempt from that is was entitled to sink enemy mer. capture and destruction unless they carry chantmen without warning claim contraband or seek to break through a which was based in part on the risk which blockade. It would also be maintained the submarize must ran in giving w that the use of submarines against ing, but mainly on the right of repriserchant vessels is not to be recognized it has violated International usage and tolerated. "And it might well be law in every case To which a German argued that the abandonment in modern submarine has captured an enemy mer. times of the right of the merchant vessel
magy
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ORDER hatman. According to established to resist capture by a super-marine war-
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and is to be taken into one of the of the submarine, namely, its fragility TRON STL METAL and HARD captor a home ports, there to be con has again changed the situation, and that WARE MERCHANTS. Wacials demood or released by a prize court, the ancient tight of defense may well be and Retall Ironmongers. Pig Iron and Exceptionally, indeed, where this pro maintained when a merchant vessel te Foundry Coks Importare Gamers! Store sedure is imposible, the capfar is entitled threatened with destruction by this "new 57, Blue Loose Sezer, (2nd Street, wh keepers and Shipobandiers Kos.: 85 and to destroy the captured 'ressal, but in wespon
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Hongkong Beptember 1, 1913. provision for the safely of its crew and men and in tesating resistance by a of any passengers. In using the sub merchantman as guerrilla warfare Ger marine for the capture of merchantmen, many is endeavouring to remodel the s this exception, which formerly confirmed existing code of naval wasters in its own the rule, has dispinced it and has become tho le
Because of its own limitations, its small size and its vulnerability, the submarine is obliged to destroy every vessel. It captures.Even if the captor's home porta be open, submarine cannot
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