Export Blockade Now On
(Received 3 p.m.) RUGBY, December 3
Tomorrow the war enters upon its fourth month, and there comes into operation the Order-in-Council, signed by the King last Monday, which, as a reprisal for German violation of the laws and customs of war, provides for further restraint on her commerce, by making liable to seizure German exports in neutral ships. The doctrine of reprisals is' very ancient. Napoleonic Wars Precedent.
A celebrated example of its, application occurred during the Napoleonic wars, when Napoleon illegally sought by a Berlin decree to forbid neutral trade with England.
England replied by Orders-in-Council which, had the object of cutting off all enemy commerce.
A more recent example occurred in the last war, when a' situation similar to the present one arose by reason of the illegal German submarine and mine action.
This was answered by the Order-in-Council of March 11, 1915, similar to that of today, preventing enemy commerce without danger to life at sea and without involving loss to neutral interests by confiscation. The German action taken against British commerce, on the contrary, .threatens not only neutral shipping and cargoes; but also neutral life.
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Northern Advocate, 4 December 1939, Page 5
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