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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nd cargowere detained until further order, and the claimof a Portuguese subject, who alleged that the>)arque had been transferred to him before theoutbreak of war whilst she was on the higiiseas, was dismissed, as the necessary conditionsf)f such a sale had not been complied with. OnJanuary G, IJIT), Cator, J., and (Jniiu, .1.,sitting at Alexandria in H.B.M. Prize Courtlor f)gypt, fonrnl that the Enteufels of lircsmniwas an tmemy ship that liud been ;)ro;)crlyseizwl as prize by H..M.S. VVar-iior after havingef)me ont of Port Said by eonipulsion. OnOctober .(0, 1014, Chief Justice CoUer, in (holloyal (Jourt of St. Lucia (in Prize) condemnndthf) Norwegian s.s. Thor for the uimeutralservice of waiting to coal a (iorinan cruiser.Whilst on this service she was captured byIf .M.S. Berwick. On November 20, 1914,Sheriff, .1., Ingham, ,)., and Hlu(;k, .)., sitting inIrizd in tlio Snprome (Jourt of Hermuda, con-demned tho Leda, captured on voyage fronii 812 THl! TIMIIS lllSTOltV OF THE W AH.
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THE WARNING SHOT. Rotterdam to Baton Rouge by H.M.S. Suffolk.On December 14, 1914, Parvis, J., sitting inPrize in H.M. Commercial Coui-t for Malta,condemned the Erymanthos ; on December 16,1914, Acting Chief Justice Gompertz, sitting inPrize in the Supreme Coui-t of Hong Kong,released the Hanametal, captui-od on August 21,1914, by H.M.S. Triumph; in March, 1915, in the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements,released the Pontoporos, which had beencaptured by a German cruiser and recapturedby H.M.S. Yarmouth. JNIany other ovei-soas casesmight be cited. It is sufficient here to haveindicated the world-wide character of theBritish Prize Court system. As a matter of record it is of interest to state ■:i Acting Chief Justice Woodward, sitting in Prize briefly the facts as to the first British prize THE TIMES HISTORY OE THE WAR. 313 case after the Crimean War. On August 4,1914, the German sailing ship or barque Chile,out of Bremen, arrived without cargo in theEast Bute Dock, Cardiff. She

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