BRITISH PRESS COMMENTS.
ABANDONMENT OP PRINCIPLE. LONDON, Wednesday. The "Manchester Guardian " ; regards the Declaration of London as an unwise and mean abandonment of a principle which defended for a centur}-, namely, that the onus of proof lay with the captor, while the Declaration of London lays the burden on the owner. If the Declaration can be made binding it would be as easy to secure "a prohibition of the capture of private property altogether. England has two courses before Irer, either t 0 make the sea in war time British territory, involving an enormous cost, or to secure complete freedom-of the seas to commerce.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 26 January 1911, Page 5
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104BRITISH PRESS COMMENTS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 26 January 1911, Page 5
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