International Law Situations (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sea, and over territory without sovereignty, and can not, on the other hand, use the air space over the territory and the coast waters of neutral States. (Die Luftschiffahrt in Kriegsrecht- licher Beleuchtung, Alex. Meyer, p. 18.) The air space over the territory and coast waters of neutral States is, in accordance with my conception, by its legal nature, to be considered as neutral territory in every respect . Therefore not only actions which are against the interests of neutral States are prohibited, as, for instance, a battle, but in general all actions not consistent with neutrality. (Ibid., p. 20.) This author holds that the entrance of belligerent men- of-war into neutral waters is not consistent with the neutral character of the territory, and should be prohibited, except in certain special cases, for instance. to transports carrying wounded, therefore? In the war law of the air this basic principle must be asserted, and, therefore, during a war military airships of the belligerents, on account of the warlike nature of the act, must be prohibited both from passing through neutral air space, and also, in general, from landing in any neutral territory. (Ibid., p. 24.) Russian regulations, 1904-?During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Russia issued among the rules to be observed: The following actions, prohibited to neutrals, are considered as violating neutrality: The transport of the enemy's troops, its telegrams or correspondence, the supplying it of transport boats ot war vessels. Vessels of neutrals found to be breaking any of these rules may be, according to circumstances, captured and confiscated. (U. S. Foreign Relations, 1904, p. 72S.) Japanese regulations. 1904-?The Japanese regulations during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 provided for the capt...