xxv., p.

602).
The committee accordingly prepared a draft, framed in accordance with the existing practice, to the discussion of which the Institut devoted the whole of its recent session at Oxford, eventually giving its _imprimatur_ to a Manual of the law of maritime warfare, as between the belligerents, in 116 articles.

As opportunity serves, the committee will prepare a second draft, proceeding upon the hypothesis that the right of capturing private property at sea has been surrendered, which, in its turn, will be debated, word for word, by the Institut de Droit International.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T.E.HOLLAND.
Oxford, November 4 (1913).
* * * * * SECTION 13 _Martial Law_ The first of the letters which follow has reference to the case of two Boer prisoners who, having taken the oath of neutrality on the British occupation of Pretoria, attempted to escape from the town.

Both were armed, and one of them fired upon and wounded a sentinel who called upon them to stop.

They were tried by court-martial, condemned to death, and shot on June 11, 1901.