VON TIRPITZ.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2

YON TIRPITZ.

TO HAVE HIS OWN RULES APPLIED. MERCHANT SHIPS TO'DEFEND THEMSELVES. Loudon, March '3. In view of Germany's distorted inferprotation of the British Admiralty's instruct ions, British ni.ercha'ul•inen will, now regard the self-defeince instructions issued im October, 1915. The Admiralty ha.s published line tcxi of lite iiifr-ifrucilions_. clearly ompbasn'sing the right of ■merchant ships to cairry guns to light hi self-defence, which i.s recognised iv. international law and also expressly admitted by the Gorman prize regulations issued in June, 1911.