MARITIME LAW
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ) BRUSSELS, April 8. (Received April 9, at 11 p.m.) The Maritime conference concluded with the adoption of a convention respecting State-owned ships. All the delegates agreed that such vessels, even warships, should be subject to the same obligations and responsibilities as privately-owned vessels, but the convention provides that warships and also public vessels shall be immune from arrest, and actions against them can only be brought before the courts of the State concerned. Sir Leslie Scott carried the vital point that all vessels during wartime, even merchantmen, shall be 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.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 11
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