RETALIATION.
BRITAIN’S BLOCKADE POLICY. PRIZE COURT JUDGMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON. April 16. Mr. Justice Evans, in the Prize Court,., condemning the Dutch vessel Leonora and a .cargo of Belgian coal for Sweden from Rotterdam, delivered' an important judgment, upholding the Order-in-Council of February, 1917, which as a reprisal against the new German submarine policy, authorised the capture of neutrals carrying enemy cargoes. The owners contended that reprisals must not infringe neutrals’ rights tinder established .international law.
Judge Evans scathingly- sketched the history of the German submarine barbarities, and alluding to the Lusitania. said there had been no crueller crime since the days of Cain. The German submarine policy rendered retaliatory measures imperative. Judge Evans remarked that neutrals who complained of interference with trade forgot that they were making enormous profits at the expense of the belligerents. The judgment affects two Dutch and six Swedish vessels.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4846, 18 April 1918, Page 5
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