CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929 — Page 68

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League of Nations and to ite kembere a Report

on Pirmay presented to it by a Sub-Committee

consisting of K. Matsuda and K. Wang Chang-Hui,

and in so doing the Committee stated in express

terms (League of Hations Paper 0.196 k.70, 1927

V., p.116) "it is anderstood that in submitting

"the present subject to the Governmente the

"Cowzittee does not pronounce either for or

"against the general principles set out in the

*Beport, or the solutions suggested for various

"particular problems on the basis of these

“principles.

At the present stage of its work

*it

la not for the Committee to put forward

It is clear,

"conclusions of this kind"

therefore, that while the leport of the Sab-

Committee possesses the weight which may be

attached to the opinion of its two distin-

guished authors, it can in no way olaim to

have been approved or aace; ted by the Committee

of Experts. As regards the actual opinion

of L. Matsuda and aug Chung-Hui on the

poins

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