MARITIME LAWS.
DECISIONS AT BRUSSELS. NO ARRESTS IN WAR TIME. (Received 9.5 p.m.) Renter. BRUSSELS. A-pril 8. The International Maritime Conference concluded with the adoption of a convention respecting State-owned ships. All delegates agreed that such vessels, even warships, should be subject to the same obligations and responsibilities as pri-vately-owned vessels, but the convention provided that warships and public vessels should be immune from arrest-, and that actions against them should be brought only hefore the Courts of the State concerned. Sir Leslie Scott carried a vital point, which was that all vessels during wartime, even merchantmen, should bo immune from arrest in order to avert the possibility of vessels being detained in neutral ports on the pretext of legal actions based on flimsy grounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19298, 10 April 1926, Page 11
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