194.
This task was accordingly among those undertaken at the Conference of Maritime Powers held in London in 1908-1909, which resulted in a Declaration, Arts.

22-44 of which constituted a fairly complete code of the law of contraband.
Reference has already been made, in comments upon letters comprised in previous sections, to this Declaration, the demerits and history of which are more fully dealt with in section 10, _infra_, pp.

196-207.
* * * * * SECTION 6 _Methods of Warfare as affecting Neutrals_ _( Mines)_ On the views expressed in the first of the two letters which follow, as also in the writer's British Academy paper on _Neutral Duties_, as translated in the _Marine Rundschau_, see Professor von Martitz of Berlin, in the _Transactions_ of the International Law Association, 1907.

The Institut de Droit International has for some years past had under its consideration questions relating to mines, and has arrived at conclusions which will be found in its _Annuaire_, t.xxi.

p.
330, t.xxii.p.344, t xxiii.p.429, t.xxiv.pp.286, 301.
The topic has also been dealt with in The Hague Convention, No.
viii.