years in Chins, this is notoriously not the case,
the basis of the limitation disappears, and the
state concerned cannot complain if the warships
of foreign states do not allow their attempte
at protecting the sea-borne commerce of the
world in those waters from being frustrated by
the pirates being enabled to use the waters
and territory of the state concerned 16 a 8eaare
asylum. Should the etate concerned make
protest in such circumstances, it would expose
itself to the reproach of making its sovereign
rig te into a protection for acts of piracy, com-
måtted not only in its own waters but also on the
high seas.
13. But apart from this general considera-
tion, which is in itself decisivo, there can
obviously be no objection to a warship taking
action against pirates in the territorial
waters of another state if that state has
invited her to do so, and the facts show
that such is the ouse here. So far as the
relevant treaty provisions are concerned there
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