This Convention has been duly ratified both by Germany and by the United States.

Its non-ratification by Great Britain is, I conceive, irrelevant.
But Germany contends that the situation is governed by Art.

19, the text of which has been several times set out in your columns, of the old Convention of 1799.

This may startle those who are acquainted with what occurred at The Hague in 1907, and I have seen no reference to what must be the gist of the German argument on the point.

They no doubt argue that the old Convention remains unrepealed by No.xiii.of The Hague, because the latter Convention is of no effect, in pursuance of its common form Art.