One can hardly admit the view which has been maintained, e.g.by Professor de Martens, that the distance shifts automatically in accordance with improvements in artillery.

The whole matter might well be included among the questions relating to the rights and duties of neutrals, for the consideration of which by a conference, to be called at an early date, a wish was recorded by The Hague Conference, of 1899.
In the meantime it may be worth while to call attention to the view of the subject taken by a specially qualified and representative body of international experts.

The Institut de Droit International, after discussions and enquiries which had lasted for several years, adopted, at their Paris meeting in 1894, the following resolutions, as a statement of what, in the opinion of the Institut, would be reasonable rules with reference to territorial waters (I cite only those bearing upon the extent of such waters):-- "Art.

2 .-- La mer territoriale s'etend a six milles marins (60 au degre de latitude) de la laisse de basse maree sur tout l'etendue des cotes.Art.

3 .-- Pour les baies, la mer territoriale suit les sinuosites de la cote, sauf qu'elle mesuree a partir d'une ligne droite tiree en travers de la baie, dans la partie la plus rapprochee de l'ouverture vers la mer, ou l'ecart entre les deux cotes de la baie est de douze milles marins de largeur, a moins qu'un usage continu et seculaire n'ait consacre une largeur plus grande.