28, to the effect that:--"The provisions of the present Convention do not apply except between contracting Powers, and then only if all the belligerents are parties to the Convention" (which is by no means the case).
Your obedient servant, T.E.HOLLAND.
Oxford, February 4 (1916).
Certain reservations on ratification do not affect Arts.

21 or 22.
The State Department ruled that the case did not fall within the protecting clauses of the Treaty of 1799, which granted asylum only to ships of war accompanying prizes, whereas the _Appam_ was herself a prize.

Proceedings by the owners in the local Federal Court for possession of the ship resulted in a decision in their favour, against which the Germans are appealing in the Supreme Court.

They do not seem to have raised the objection, mentioned in the letter, as to the applicability of Convention viii.
* * * * * SECTION 5 _Carriage of Contraband.

(Absolute and Conditional Contraband: Continuous Voyages: Unqualified Captors: The Declaration of London)_ The letters included in the preceding sections 2 and 3 touched incidentally upon carriage of contraband, in relation to other departments of the law affecting neutrals.