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These quotations are taken from Hall's Internationa
Hall himself olasses among types of piratical acts:-
"Robbery or attempt at robbery of a vessel by force or
intimidation, either by way of attack from without or by
way of revolt of the ore and conversion of the vessel
and cargo to their own use". If the seizure of a vessel
by its own orew is to be counted as piracy, there is aurely still more cause for regarding as piracy the seisure
of a ship by passengers who intimádate both officers and erew
The ühinGBE 6280 ppears to ba
(a) that the men who seized the "Irene" were not
pirates because they did not molest any other vessel but
the "Irene" and
(b) that the "Irene" was not a pirate ship.
Argument (a) falls to the ground on a question of
fact, for the enclosure to Hongkong despatch of December
12th to the Colonial of ice shows evidence that six out of
the seven persons had already taken part in previous
piracies. uite apart from this, however, the argument
is in itself untenable. Its reductie ad absurdum would
be that a pirate is not a pirate even if caught red-
handed, if he has only committed one piracy. As to
argument (bi no ens contends that the "Irene" is a
pirate ship. what Dr. su is in all probability really
hinting at is that the essence of piracy is that it is com-
mitted not only on a ship but from a ship so that the ship
in a danger te others. There does not seem to be any
ground for this contention.
There has certainly been
a change of methods. In the old days pirates boarded
vessels on the High beani
now they find it more convenient
to