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The Controversy Between the United States and Germany Over the Use of Submarines Against Merchant Vessels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1915

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References

1 The German views will be found clearly stated in the work of Dr. Schramm, special adviser to the German Admiralty, entitled “Das Prisenrecht,” pp. 266–267, and the question is carefully considered by Dr. Heinrich Triepel, professor at the University of Berlin, in an article entitled “Der Wiederstand feindlicher Handelsschiffe gegen die Aufbrigung” in the Zeitschrift für Völkerrecht, No. 8, p. 378.

2 For an exposition of the British policy of arming merchant vessels and an historical review of the practice, see the article in this Journal for October, 1914, p. 705, by Mr. A. Pearce Higgins, lecturer of international law at the London School of Economic and Political Science, formerly deputy Whewell professor of international law in the University of Cambridge.

3 9 Cranch, 389.

4 3 Wheaton, 409.

5 Supplement to this Journal for January, 1915, p. 121.

6 Hall, International Law, 4th Edition, pp. 474–5, 477

7 The Leucade, 2 Spinks, 228, 231.

8 The Felicity, 2 Dod. 381.