PRIZE SHIPS.
PEIVY COUNCIL EEVISES DECISION. Elec- Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.l Australian and Nz. cable Association.! LONDON, Eeb. 11. The Judicial Committee of tlie Privy Council reversed the Prize Court’s decision condemning as prizes three German merchant ships, each under 1100 tons, seized in London and Liverpool on the outbreak of war, and requisitioned by the Admiralty. One grounded and another -was lost, being torpedoed by the Germans. The Judicial Committee held that the German owners were entitled to the benefit of the Hague Convention, whereby merchant ships in enemy ports on the outbreak of war must not'be confiscated, but merely detained. Lord Sumner, delivering the judgment, said: “While Germany may have flagrantly disregarded her obligations under the Hague Convention (which fettered her freedom of action), it did not follow that she intended to repudiate a convention under which she stood to gain largely in the long run, and thereby give Britain the right to treat herself as released from a co-relative obligation. The judgment entitles the German owners to compensation from the British Government for the torpedoed steamer.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15748, 13 February 1922, Page 3
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179PRIZE SHIPS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15748, 13 February 1922, Page 3
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