A GERMAN PRIZE COURT DECISION
THE BATAVIER'S CARGO. , (Roc. August 31, 9.20 p.m.) ' . London, August 31. 'I'llß Foreign OlEue states that tho effect of the decision of the Prize Court at Hamburg in tlio caso'of the Dutch steamor Batavier—confiscation of/ tho foodstuffs oil board destined to England and South. Africa, and release of Ills foodstuffs destined for India, and Australia—and refusal to pay an indemnity for. the Maria, - a wheatearner, sunk' by\ the Karlsruhe in tlio Atlantic last September, appears to bs to aGolisli in practice 'the distinction between absolute and conditional contraband. . Tho "Daily Chronicle" ■ points _ out that these decisions make praoticajly any port a foi tifie'd place or base, and deprive the owner of tho power of exercising his right in international law to rebut' tlio German contention that I1t« goods wore intended for military ■use.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2555, 1 September 1915, Page 5
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138A GERMAN PRIZE COURT DECISION Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2555, 1 September 1915, Page 5
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