CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929 — Page 75

years in China, this is notoriously not the case,

the is of the limitation disappeare, and the

state concerned cannot complain if the warships

of foreign states do not allow their attempts

at protecting the soa-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 as a secure

asylum. @hould the state monoerned make a

protest in such circumstances, it would expose

Itself to the reproach of making its sovereign

ights into a protection for acts of piracy, com-

itted not only in its own watera but also on the

igh seas,

18. But apart from this general considera.

ion, which is in itself decisive, there can

bviously be ao objection to a warship taking

stion against pirates in the territorial

aters of another elute lí that above hap

nvited he to do so, and the fuots show

lat such is the case bere.

Jo far as the

›levant treaty provisions are concerned there

I nothing in the wording of Article 53 of the

Treaty

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