SUEZ CANAL NEUTRALITY
PERMANENT AND ABSOLUTE ARTICLE IN COVENANT PARIS, June 9. (Received June 9, at 11.30 p.m.) Tlie Marquis de Vogue, presiding at the Suez Canal Company’s annual meeting, emphasised that “tlie permanent and absolute neutrality ” of tlie canal was guaranteed by article one of the International Convention of 1888, which was expressly confirmed by tlie Treaty of Versailles. This stated that “ the canal shall always be free and open in war time and peace time to all merchant or war vessels without flag distinction. The canal shall never be used for the exercise of the right of blockade.” The marquis added: “If any Power forcibly attempted to prevent another from using the canal that would be tantamount to an act of war, with all its consequences.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22903, 10 June 1936, Page 10
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