SAFETY OF MAILS
UNDER HAGUE CONVENTION. The Postmaster-General thinks it will allay public anxiety to publish an extract from the Hague Convention (1907) relating to the inviolability of postal correspondence ; as follows :— ' "Convention (No. 11) relative to certain Restrictions on the Fixercise of the Right of Capture in Maritime War. "CHAPTER I.— POSTAL CORRESPONDENCE. "Article I. "The postal correspondence of neutrals or belligerents, whatever its official or private character, found on board a neutral or enemy ship on the high seas' is inviolable. If the ship is detained, the correspondence is forwarded by the captor with the least possible delay. "Tho provisions of the preceding para, graph do not, in case of violation of blockade, apply to correspondence proceeding to or from a blockaded port. Article 2. "The inviolability of postal correspondence does not 'exempt a neutral mailship from the laws and customs of naval war respecting neutral merchant-ships in general. Tho ship, however, may not be •searched except when absolutely neceseary, and then only with as much consideration and expedition as possible." This was signed by Germany, Austria, Hungary,' ltaly, Great Britain, France, Belgium* Japan, Netherlands, Servia, Switzerland. Turkey.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 8
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190SAFETY OF MAILS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 8
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