NEUTRALITY LAWS OBSERVED.
BT'T PROVE NO OBSTACLE. ( Received 5.45 a m J LONDON, February 11. The Russian ship Smolensk ■was allowed at Port Said under the international law of neutrality to take on board only enough coal to carry her to the nearest home port. It was afterwards observed, however, that ahe entered the Suez Canal in company with a Russian torpedo-boat. The Smolensk is the largest and fastest of the Russian Volunteer tleet. The implicit; understanding with regard to the coaling of combatant ships, says and authority, is that no belligerent can be supplied with coal at a neutral port more than once in three months during war. and it is stipulated that j only a quantity 3hall be allowed sum- i dent to carry the vessel to the nearest port in the country to which it belongs. That was the rule observed during the American Civil War. It cannot be considered within the law of nations, but only a municipal law on the part of the country adopting.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 February 1904, Page 5
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