CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929 — Page 67

itled to take action with a view te releasing

thship from the miscreants who have taken

possession of her and bringing them to trial)

is one which I cannot think can really coENS VILË

itself to Your Excellency. Che argusont aṛpeare

to be that the action of overpowering the officers,

seling the vessel and subsequently looting her

and robbing her passe.iger B loes not amount to

piracy jure gentium, though if the pirates were

to make use of the captured ship in order to

enable them to attack another vessel this would

indisputably to 80. The only authority sited

in support of this proposition, apart from

cert in "eminent juriste" who are neither

nured ner noted, la the Committee of lixporta

of the League of 3 tions for the Progressive

Jodification of International Law, and I winh

to make it plain at once that that äistinguished

body cannot be quoted in support of any such

thesis. In their eport, dated January 29th,

1926 the Committee of Experts wommunicated to the

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