RIGHT OF CAPTURE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 5 November 1910, Page 5

RIGHT OF CAPTURE.

BRITAIN'S BEST NAW&L

WEAPON.

[press association.] (Received Nov. 4, 40.10 p.m:) ! %■■ LONDON, Nov;.-;4. • i Admiral Mahan, in a letter te^The I Times, declares that the right -of maritime capture is the principal, iff not'the only strong weapon of offence | which Great Britain possesses againsts ■ the .Continent. He adds that toj bring, the pressure of war to bear ( on the whole population, not merely i .■on the armies in the field, is ttte! least inhuman of all the Inevitable; iinhumawities of war, because it detect; •tsvar and hastens peace.