MEANING OF AN OLD PHRASE.
The "freedom of the seas" rests upon the fact, that no nation has any jurisdiction over the high spas, excepting' over the vessels of its subjects, which rulo extends to its public vessels everywhere. Each nation "controls'" iho sea to the'distance of one marino league from its' shores, but the high seas a-ro thus "frco" to all nations. Great Britain formerly claimed exclusive control over the high seas, but. later limited such demand to the waters surrounding her coasts, and at last submitted, in common with all other nations, to
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 10
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95MEANING OF AN OLD PHRASE. Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 10
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