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THE DECLARATION OF PARIS.
THE RIGHT OF CAPTURE.
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOR ER 3RD, 1914.
The following letters are taken from successive issues of the Times:
SIR, at this supreme moment we are to put forth our full naval strength, against our enemy we must resume our right to capture his merchandise at sea, s even when found in a neutral ship.
It is by the exercise of this right that we can' most effectually distress our enemy by cutting his sea communications, stop- ping his sea trade-which in the case of Germany is 65 per cent. of the whole-and thus cause his subjects to pay famine prices for all sea-borne merchandise. This, as experience has shown, in infinitely more effectual and also more merciful than destroying his ships and killing his seamen. This, in the long run, is irresistible. This is an exercise of sex-power which reaches the remotest corners of the land.
In order to recover this power all we need to do is to give notice to the world that we will no longer be bound by the Declaration of Paris of 1870. The fourth article thereof declares that the neutral Hag covers enemy's merchandise with the exception of contraband of war: and so long as we do not openly repudiate that article, 'so long must we allow our enemy to carry on under our noses in neutral vessels the trade he can no longer carry on in his own, and paralyse the most effectual power of a preponderant foot.
The pretended compensation to Great Britain for this fourth article was the first artiele, which declared that privateering is and remains - abolished. But the first article is so flagrantly violated that our present chief anxiety is the protection of our merchantmen from German privateers of the new kind, pretending to convert themselves into ships of war on the high seas.
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Constitution requires before any accession GERMAN'S BREACH OF PAROLE fiereto could be made. What I desire for this country is a resumption of the rights which the United States have never
abandoned.
The Declaration of Paris was avowedly signed in 1856 by Lords Clarendon and Cowley without due authority, and, as the former avowed, was an act not "within the strict limits" of their
The saphare of enemy goods in a "attribu- tions." It has never been ratified by anyutral ship does no injury whatever to British Sovereign, or at all. It is not that ship. For, so soon as the captured a treaty nor a convention, and it has non goods have been placed in safety, not only of the marks of authority of either. It the neutral ship which carried them is no part of the Law of Nations. It cleased, but she is also paid in full the a tere unauthorized Declaration, binding freight which the would have earned had
she completed her voyage.
AT CALCUTTA.
A German subject named Schoffice, who was a sailor on board the English steam- ship St. Michael, was, on the outbreak of war between England and Germany, removed to the Sailors' Home at Calcutta and placed on parole: A few of the condi tions of his parole was that he should re port himself daily to Mr. Discon, one of the Special Police Officers recently
ap
or us until and unless wo denounce and If the present war be prolonged-as it pointed by Government; that he would repudiate it, but no longer, and expable. of being repudiated by a mere formal well be the resumption of our full intimation to the world that we will no right of capture will become of vital longer be bound by it,
insportance.
by
Lord
Your faithful servant,
THOS. GIBSON BOWLES. Carlton Club, August 10th.
Salisbury, who called it a rush and
It has been condemned
unwise proceeding ''; by Mr. Johni Stuart Mill, who declared it to be the abandon ment of our chief defensive weapon
The Pall Mall Gazetic refers as follows by Lord Roberts, and by our best this question in a leading article: sean.on. Those who would examine the
Let us take occasion to review the case against it may perhaps refer to The situation calmly. The sea-horns com Declaration of Paris,"
of the Germans iy mself in 1900, and to Sea Law and strangled, and will remain so unless the
published by merce
already
Sea Power," published in 1930..
win a wholly unlooked-for and complete bas saved us from being bound in this marine is captured or shat up in German Now is the time. The House of Lords victory at se. Their own mercantile crisis of our fate by the Declaration of or neutral ports; no goods can be ron- London. Let his Majesty's Government Wed-to-Germany-in English, French, or show their determination to use our naval Jussian bottons; nothing can come to strength by rescuing
theher across her Eastern frontier, for that Declaration of Paris.
from US
refrain from getting intoxicated and that be would not be absent from the Home after six p.m. unless given permission to do so by the authorities.
one
It is alleged that accused on more than ceension intentionally broke the three conditions. He was placed before the Commissioner of Police, who sent him up for trial under Section 69 of the Police Act for being drunk and dis- orderly.
There are
On the ease coming on for hearing, In: accused was absent from the Horn on the spector Lyons of the C.1.D. said that
Austrian subjects in the Home. 15th, 16th and 17th instant. now, said the witness, 138 German and Accused was sentenced to one week's
us imprisonment-impre
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The
The
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THE BRITISH NAVAL UNIFORM,
Our sailors have on their uniform a perpetual reminder of the Navy's glori ous past, though not every one who wears them knows that the three rows of white, tape round the edging of the blue collar and the black silk scarf knotted in front commemorate Nelson's most famous vie are links with Nelson. The white tapes
Trafalgar and the scarf is a token ni tories Copenhagen, perpetual mourning for the grant ad miral, adopted spontaneously by his sen men themselves, and retained ever since.
the Nile, and
GRAVES DUG BY
TEETH.
THE
I instruct you soldiers. Listen atten- protection of the country. To disturb the
Soldiers tively.
aro kept for the
country with his whole might is a patriot. country is a crim. He who protects his Ans une that is willing to rob is out of human nature. joining the regiment he become a soldier. At home a man is a citizen. Once People and soldiers are the same. soldier has alder and younger ones to is in the grip of the Russians. The only
support. If they are deceived or Your faithful servant,
possible channels through which she can.
uppressed, he feels injustice. He has THUS. GIBSON Bowies
ressive supplies are the Italian ports and
wealth and property to protect. If it is Carlton Club, August 7th
the Baltic ports of Scandinavia. But the
stolen his heart feels pain. Compare whole tonnage of the neutral States, aven
yourself with others for a moment. Your A London physician of some renown, 10 Maps 58.
SIR, I desire to protest in the were all employed in conveying
love for the people will be born. It is who didn't mines matters when advising strongest possible manner against the goods to Germany, would suffice only for DEVON AND
The Racing Calendar of August 12th who supply them with provisions. If the who was as mich a slave to his appetit
the duty of soldiers to protect the people, patients, was once consulted by a man 30 Tlustrations. suggestion contained in Mr. Bowles' small pertion of her needs.
And the whose conscience is letter in your issue of to-day, proposing antral nations.
publishes the following moties:-- CORNWALL
soldiers injure the people and their as some men are to atcohol The doctor 12 Maps; 58.
that England should withdraw from the Gutraged by the brutality of Gorman The Stewards of the Jockey Club desire property, they return goodness with made a few inquiries as to the man's way Visitors to Brighton, Eastbouras, Hastings Leclaration of Paris, by which enemy policy, are not likely to go out of their to point out how important it is in case hatred, and are thus no better than of living; and then, with the bluntness Bournemouth, Wye Valley, Severn Valley property, not being contraband of war,
way to lend her comfort and support. of abandonment of race meetings, that a animals. If they are able to escape the with which he treated all alike, he said, Bath, Weston-super-ware, Malvern, Hereford board a neutral vessel is protected
For this reason we deprecate the decision should be arrived al by the local net of law, devils and gods in Heaven Live on sixpence a day-and earn it Worcestor. Glcucester, Llandrinod Wells from capture. One any rest assured that suggestion of Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowle stewards and announced sufficiently long and Earth will not tolerate them. It was sound advice.
tangollen, Aberystwyth, Towyn, Barmouth is Majesty's Government will not take that we should resume our right to before the date of the meeting to avoid ought to respect himself. To protect the
More people die He who takes up the military profession by food than by fusins. Dolgelly, Harlech, Criccieth, het any notice of this suggestion, but it is tapture enemy goods in neutral ships. any inconvenience or expense to owners country and console the people is no light your digestive, organs, the stomach, liver Don't, then, put too great a strain upon Llandudno Rhyl, Baltws-ycool, Isle of of the highest importance that the people is both unnecessary und undesirable. We dispatching their horses unnecessarily. Wight and Channel Islands should sond for of this country should refuse to be led have the moral sanction of the ́ncutral
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1 new situation would prise. The ERNEST SMOw. authorities would then know what action Beaumont, Ottery St. Mary, Aug. 8th.
to take. But that is a contingency not likely to uccur. S-1 much respect Sir Ernest Satow, but I doubt his competency in things pertaining to naval wariaro, For sadly reminder that it was he who voted with the German delegate on October 9th 1907, at The Hague for that Convention, No. 5, which expressly permits the unrestricted use in war of the submarine contact mines now.
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is Germany's share in the world's trade, which must, lemporarily, at any rate, be transferred to us and our allies.
How frequently do people wake up in in fact, they hope that local stewards will whole regiment feel ashamed. Of his or the keeping of late hours, with what. not decide on abandoning unless they are comrades, one should take care. Above they call a touch of the liver. They quite satisfied that it is imperative for all the military men should emphasise the probably have a headache; and their them to do so, and it must be remembered obedience of orders. If all try their best,
temper is as jumpy as a cat on hot bricks. that any prolonged discontinuance of their merit is earned. Disobedienco They try to work off their depression by racing will throw a large number of per- results in the loss of a soldier's qualifica- finding fault with the cooking of the sons dependent upon it for their livelihood tions. He is ruined, his name is breakfast; the exuberance of the kiddies, out of employment..
destroyed and his family likewise rosy with good health, acts for all the oldiers should salute and show due disorganized. Secing an official the world like a red rag to a bull, and is
Soon the whol growlingly rebuked. respect. Chinese and foreign officials are household is at. Bixes and sovens the same. Disrespect causes men to Perhaps things take an even worse turn. laugh. It hurts the name of soldiers. In So run down is the victim that specks drilling he should patiently boar hard-fuat before the eyes; ovartion, mentally
On pishlie grounds it is desirable that no reason should be published for the abandonment of a fixture.
BY THE POET LAUREATE.
Thon careless, awake!
Thou peacemaker, fight! Stand, England, for honour, And God guard the Right! Thy mirth lay aside,
Thy cavil and play: The foe is upon
thee,
And grave is the day.
ness.
winning of victory depends upon skilful in, and the prostrated form lies limp The soldiers are kept for one upon a couch or hed. The once clear thousand days, but used for a short time, skin becomes sallow, and the outlook on He who hurries to the front in the field life generally is dismal in the extreme. before others is brave He that retreats
HAVE YOU A LIVER: and violates the law. shall die without
feld with glory.
pity. Therefore it is better to die on, the Plainly amends have to be made to the
liver. The arms are articles properly, and it rewards you by not Treat that important, organ for your protection, upon which depends letting you know of its existence. Il tour merit. You must continually love, them. How to use them must be learned. I am anxiously giving you this lesson, You must keep the instructions well in your mind.-Peking Daily News.
The remedy
treat it, and it punishes you in the fashion described above. which for forty years has kept on win ning friends all over the globe by the speediness with which it places them on good terms with their liver is Mother Seigel's Syrup. Here is a sample of the aid it brings
being employed for British goods and the supply of "ENGLAND STANDS FOR HONOUR ship. The deicat of enemy and the or bodily, in too distasteful to ba indulged against us, by - Germany, Sir Ernest material to meet British needs will moreover, was so unfortunate, as to be subject to the stringency of credit, bo as one of the fabricators of that Declaration | great as ever. And, in addition, there of London which, nad it not been fortunately denied ratification in Decom ber, 1911, by the House of Lords, would at this moment undanger our food supply, Such, then, is the position, in which we Fatally shackle our Navy, and submit its stand, and such is the silent operation of acts to an alien Prize Court. His sea-power which is already at work. passionate protest against the resumption What the rifcet will be on our enemy the of the right to capture enemy property future will show. For ourselves, we have in neutral ships by the denunciation of the strong conviction that, now as in the the Declaration of Paris of 153 is that past, war will provide the sinews of war, of one who has put himself out of court. and that without the smallest need to Strictly speaking, that Declaration is injure or outrage any neutral nation. already annulled and abrogated, The As the first senge of bewilderment at the signatories thereof. recorded the idea of war passes away, we believe these Indivisibility of the four principles things are becoming plain to the nation. mentioned in the Declaration signed this We have losses, sorrow, privation to face; day," and stipulated that the Powers we have need of all our fortitude, energy, parties thereto "cannot enter in future and patience. But while the British into any arrangement which does not rest Empiro is firmly based upon sea-power, at the sanit time on all the four there is no need for the smallest anxiety principles. The first principle having about its future. been violated by Germany by reviving privateering, the second principle giving immunity from capture to enemy goods in mentral ships has therefore gone, and the whole indivisible Declaration there. with. Nevertheless, I hold that this
BANK STAFF'S LOYALTY,
A CALCUTTA RESOLUTION,
At a meeting of the European and
country could not honourably release Indian staffs of Calcutta branch of the itself from the Declaration without Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., resplu formally denouncing it. Sir Ernest Satow says that this would be a breach tions express'vo of loyalty, a determina of international good faith." I cannot tion to do all in their power to assist agree with him: The Declaration may Government and to contribute towards the honourably be denounced without any Imperial Relief Fund, were unanimously treach of faith at nil.
passed. A further resolution suggesting that each member of the staff should con- tribute not less than one day's pay to the fund was agreed to and a committee was formed to give effect to the resolutions, It was decided to forward copies of the
The right to capture enemy property in neutral ships (although waived in the war with Spain) has never been abandoned by our cousing in blood and to sea power ncross the Atlantic; nor has the United States Senate ever been asked for or resolutions to H.E. the Viceroy, and to given that advice and consent to a H.E. the Governor of Bengal.. ratification of the Declaration which the
The monarch Ambition
Hath harnessed his slaves; But the folk of the Ocean Arc free, as the waves.
For Peace thou art armed Thy Freedom to hold; Thy Courage as iron,
Thy Good-faith as gold.
Through Fire, Air, and Water
Thy trial must be:
But they that love life best
Die gladly for thee.
The Love of their mothers Is strong to command; The fame of their fathers
Is might to their hand.
Much suffering shall cleanre theo;
But thou through the flood Shalt win to Salvation,
To Peauty through blood.
careless, awake!
Peacemakers, Fight!
ENGLAND STANDE FOR HONOUR
GOD DEFEND THE RIGHT!
ROBERT BRIDGE,
Poet Laureate,
INFLUENCE OF RADIUM ON PLANT LIFE.
Mrs. A. Van Rechen, of Hill St., Mosse
Mesara Sulton & Sung, the well Bay writes on December 6th, 1913: known British firm of seed growers and my appetite, have bilious attacks, and, "Ahout ten years ago, I began to lose horticulturies, have been experimenting in fact, was generally out of sörta. At with radium at Reading during the past this time my complexion was of a sickly year, and testing its influence en plant yellow appearance. life. The idea that it might te beneficial emaciated, and was also very nervous and I was weak and as a soil fertilizer or plant stimulant was irritable; in fact life had become a brought to the notice of a member of the burden to me. firm during a visit to Cornwall Supplies Syrup and a bottle of Mother Seigel's I procured a bottle of were procured from the Cornish mines of Pills, as I was most constipated. In a radio-active ore and of the residue after fortnight's time, I was feeling quite well, the radium has been extracted, the latter although still weak after such a serious helug obtainable at commercial prices and illness. In a few more weeks I had quite in liberal quantities, and systematic tests recovered." were carried out with radishes, lettuces,
An occasional dose of this famous Seas, and carnations. At sa inspection herbal remedy will tone up the liver, of the results recently it was shown that when it is inclined to he sluggish, so the radium had a pronounced effect in that it can more capably deal with any astening germination and in increasing impurities which otherwise would elog bulk, most noticeably in the case of the system. Nothing is more effective radishes and lettuces, and altogether the than Mother Seigel's Syrup in helping results were
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qualities.
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