If 90.
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this is a remarkable oiroumetanoe wh loh
amply demonstrates the eare with which the
Consanider or the submarine employed the very
moderate amount of force which was necessary to
bring the vessel to.
15. In fact if Your Exoelleney's contentic
on this point means anything it must mean that a
warship which encouutera a vessel in the hands of
pirates is not entitled to use force at all in
the event of the vessel declining to stop,
bechápe if this is done there must always be a
rick that eit or the ship or someone on board
may be injured either by the shots themselves or
by action, such as setting the ship on fire,
taken by the pirates on realising that they are
about to be deprived of their ill-gotten gains.
It would follow that in such oiroume tanges the
Commander of the warship must allow the pirates
to remove the vessel to their base without let
or hindrance and there loot her at their leisure;
otherwise