PRIZE COURTS AND THE LAW THEY ADMINISTER. )
Court said that it was well known throughout the
world that Germany had grossly violated many of its
most important provisions and she could not be
allowed in this or any other Court to contend that
any of the remaining provisions should he applied in
her favour, even if perchance there might be one or
two which she had not ruthlessly violated. Moreover,
agreements, whether made between nations or
individuals, in order to be effective, must be:
reciprocal. The German Government had, in an
official communication to the Siamese Legation in
Berlin, entirely repudiated the application during
the Great War of the Eleventh Hague Convention.
Germany could not, therefore, complain at any time
that The Hague Conventions had not been observed 3
§ 27. Prize regulations have also been issued, in Austrian,
” . Coss md ~ Lurkish,
& more or less complete form, by Austria-Hungary Ciach al
(Ordinances of March 3 and 21, 1864; May 13 and Rumanian
July 9, 1866, as-revised on May 2, 1913) ;* by Turkey Prize codes
(Decree of January 31, 1912), by Greece (Instruc-
tions of the General Staff of the Royal Marine of
1913); and by Rumania (Decree of December 30,
1917).7
3 Ibid., and The Chantaboon, October 18, 1917, Rep. Fry Libr.
4 These latter regulations are entitled Anhang zum Dienstregle-
ment fir die k. yu. k. Kriegsmarine (Internationales See- und Land-
kriegsrecht), and will be found in N. Vv B., 1913, No. 15. They
were frequently referred to and followed by the Pol Prize Court in
the last war: The Zarifis, [1917], ibid., 1917, No, 14. As to the
organisation of the Austro-Hungarian Prize Courts, see the
Prisengerichtsordnung of November 28, 1914, ibid. , 1914, No. 37.
5 Bulletin de UInstitut Intermédiaire International, vol. 5 (1921),
pp. 137-151, Thiy decree, however, had to be ratified by the
Ottoman Parliament, but it does not appear that this hag been done
up to the present.
SR. G&G. .D. 1, vol. 28 (1916), Pp. 42.
7 Moniteur officiel dy, Royaume de Roumanie, January 4, 1918,
No. 256." “The constitution “and organisation of Rumanian Prize
Courts is regulated by the Decree of September 18, 1917, 4bid.,
September 26, 1917, No. 151.
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