blockade-running or carriage of contraband; but merely to acquiesce in the loss and inconvenience which may in consequence be inflicted by the belligerents upon persons so acting.

In order to explain this statement, it became necessary to say much as to the true character of "carriage of contraband" (although this topic is more specifically dealt with in the letters contained in Section 5), and to point out that such carriage is neither a breach of international law nor forbidden by the law of England.

For the same reason, it seemed desirable to criticise some of the clauses now usually inserted in British Proclamations of Neutrality.
The view here maintained commended itself to the Institut de Droit International, at its Cambridge and Venice sessions, 1895, 1896, as against the efforts of MM Kleen and Brusa to impose on States a duty of preventing carriage of contraband by its subjects (_Annuaire_, t.xiv.p.191, t.xv.p.

205).

It has now received formal expression in The Hague Convention No.
x.