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Under international law, countries who trade in arms and munitions during a war do so at their own risk, said Professor R. M. Algie, Professor of Law at the Auckland University Collegs, when discussing the raising of the arms embargo in respect to Abyssinia (states the "Auckland Star").
"The removal of the embargo upon the importation of arms and munitions into Abyssinia comes rather late in the day to be of much real use to Abyssinia," said the professor. "Such articles as these would be contraband and therefore the Italian Government, as one of the belligerents, would be quite entitled to take its own measures for checking the importation of such articles into Abyssinia.
"The Italian warships would havu the right to search any vessels belonging to any country if they had reasonable grdind to suspect that they were carrying arms or munitions' for Abyssinia. If such articles were discovered they could be condemned without liability for compensation. The* point, therefore, is that people who engage in trade in arms and munitions during a war do so at their own risk."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 9
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 9
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