NO MAN'S OCEAN.
COLLISION AND SEQUEL. COURT NO JURISDICTION. (Received July 16, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. July 16. A foreign Power would be at liberty to establish a submarine or a seaplane base with impunity at a point between Glamorganshire and Devonshire, where the Bristol Channel is 20 miles wide, according to a decision of the Court of Appeal. It would also be possible in a war between foreign belligerents for one warship to chase another into the Channel and make a capture outside territorial waters. The case before the Court concerned a collision between the British and Italian ships Cornish Coast and Fagernes onMarch 17, 1926. The latter was sunk and many lives were lost. Lord Justice Bankes, in giving judgjudgment, said the question was whether the place where the collision occurred was within the territorial jurisdiction of the King. He ruled that it was not within the realm and not within the jurisdiction of the Courts. The point was not covered by any maritimo agreement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19691, 18 July 1927, Page 9
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