Art.
4 .-- En cas de guerre, l'etat riverain neutre a le droit de fixer, par la declaration de neutralite, ou par notification speciale, sa zone neutre au dela de six milles, jusqu'a portee du canon des cotes.Art.

5 .-- Tous les navires sans distinction ont le droit de passage inoffensif par la mer territoriale, sauf le droit des belligerants de reglementer et, dans un but de defense, de barrer le passage dans la dite mer pour tout navire, et sauf le droit de neutres de reglementer le passage dans la dite mer pour les navires de guerre de toutes nationalites." (_Annuaire de l'Institut_, t.
xiii.p.

329).
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T.E.HOLLAND.
Oxford, June 1 (1904).
A French decree, of October 18, 1912, accordingly extends, when France is neutral, her territorial waters to a distance of six miles (11 kilom.) from low-water mark.
_( Cable-cutting)_ With the letters which follow, compare the article by the present writer on "Les cables sous-marins en temps de guerre," in the _Journal de Droit International Prive_, 1898, p.

648.
The topic of cable-cutting, as to which the Institut de Droit International arrived in 1879 at the conclusions set out in the first of these letters, was again taken into consideration by the Institut in 1902: see the _Annuaire_ for that year, pp.
301-332.
The Hague Convention; No.iv.of 1907, provides, in Art.

54, that "submarine cables connecting occupied territory with a neutral territory shall not be destroyed or seized, unless in case of absolute necessity.