The action of the Japanese is in full accordance with the letter and spirit of all four articles of the Declaration of Paris.

("The Treaty of Paris" has, of course, no bearing upon prize law.) 2.

"The general principles" of that Declaration is a phrase which conveys to me, I confess, no meaning.
3.

The Japanese have, of course, a prize law of their own, borrowed, for the most part, from our own Admiralty Manual of Prize Law.

Neither the British nor the Japanese instructions are in conflict with, or indeed stand in any relation to, the Declaration of Paris.
4.