USE OF NEUTRAL FLAGS
WELL-ESTABLISHED PRACTICE ADOPrED BY BRITAIN AS WELL AS GERMANY LONDON, Bth February. Tlhj J'»nti--li foreign Office Ims issued a statement declaring that, with ccrtnin limitation 1 ), the Hie of m i.eulraJ Hag as (t " rute de giiurie" is a wellestablished practice. (Ireat liritain ha.; nhvayis considered that tho use of the B>ili*h toltnlrs l>y folci^h vc-wlh w;ik Ic^itiinale for thu purpose of escaping cajitlllc, though a vi'swl uuina il, olliciwjhp was liable to forfcituie. It is also. c(>nliiiiii"i tin' H(al,ciiii'iit, oblignloiy iijioh a bulligcrent to ascertain the character of n irir'irh.'iid, vehMC) ;m<l itH caigo beforo caj)turt;. " UerMiiny has no i'ig\il l<> «li c »efja)tl kiicli ol)ligalioii ( and therefore lier intention to destroy a ship with non coinljatanls on boiud \h \mn> piracy." 'Che ( itiifiid Uiu'i ijWMlnu'iii. when neaung lieland, hoisted the American flag in pii)siiaricr> of the Aduili ;i lt y 'h nißtriiclions by wireless, and arrived at Liverpool safely. % — „
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 7
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155USE OF NEUTRAL FLAGS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 7
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