Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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on ofLondon, came to the conclusion that the allegedtransfer was not valid, and that the ships, for all^purposes connected with the Prize Court, been upheld, and very emphatically upheld, bythe House of Lords in the Continental Tyrecase. We now turn from molasses to fish, to thevery interesting coast fisheries case associateilwith the name of the German cutter the Berlin.The British Fleet was pretty busy on August 5.1914, and there were not many German sea-going ships that were missed. In the fore-noon of that day H.M.S. Princess Royal, ahundred miles from the British coast andsome five hundred miles from Emdon inPrussia, fell in with the Berlin, of Emden, adrift fishing boat, with barrels empty an»ibarrels full of tho pleasant herrings of theNorth Sea. The Be>lin was handed over tothe s.s. Ailsa, and carried into Wick in theearly morning of August G. She had beenbusily fishing or trawling in tlu mid NorthSea. The question before tiu> Couit was THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAB. :n5
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SIR SAMUEL THOMAS EVANS, C.C B.,Jud^e of the Prize Court. whothor nhf) was immune from capture as acoast fixhing vfjH.sel. The subject had longbjon one of extraordinary interc»st to inter-national lawyers, and the history of the sub-ject was reviowfxl at great length by Mr../liHtice Gray (f.S.A.) in a case arising out (»fthe Hpanish/Vrrierican war of IH.iH. Sir .Samnple who man them gaintheir liveliho>d, uri- ;iot (»ir)perly subjects ofcapture in war so long as they conduc them- selves to the peaceful work which the industryproperly involves. But the learned Presich^ntheld that in fact the Berlin was a deep-seafishing vessel engaged in a coinmercial entor-;)rise which fonned part of the trade of theeni-my country, anfl, as such, could be, aiifi was,properly captured as

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