CORRESPONDENCE IN WAR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2227, 13 August 1914, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE IN WAR

\ Tho Postmaster-General thinks it will ally public anxiety to publish an extract from the Convention (1907) relating to the inviolability, of postal correspondence, as follows:— • Convention annexed to Final Act of L Second-Peace Conference hold at Madrid r in 1907. ' , ■ ; Convention (No. 11) relative to certain restrictions on the exerciso of the right of capture in. martime war. Chapter I. Postal Correspondence. ". Articlo I.—The postal correspondence of • noutrals or belligerents, whatever its offi- ! cial or'private character, found on board j H neutral or enemy ship on the high seas 1 is inviolable. If the ship is detained, the r correspondence is forwarded by tho captor, with the least possible-delay/. The provisions of the preceding parai graph do not, in case of violation of - blockade, apply to correspondence proi ceeding to or from a blocaded port. i Article 2.—The inviolability of postal s correspondence does not exempt a neutral mail-ship from the laws and customs of war respecting neutral merchant' i ships in general. The ship, however, may . riot be searched except when absolutely " necessary, and then only vritJi as rnnch i consideration and expedition n9 possible. Signed by:' Germany; Austria Hungary, , Italy, Great Britain, France, Belgium, •~ Japan, Netherlands, Servia, Switzerland, Turkey." ' ■ h During tho war an intercession service ' will be held every Friday at 5.15 p.m. . in St. Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral, '' Mulgravo Street. Those who have relatives or friends on active service are specially invited to bo present. '■ The Best Map of the Scat of War can h now be obtained showine all Towns of 'a importance, Bailwnys, Stoarner lines, ami a distances. Size, 26 x 22 inches.. Price Is In. ,3d. posted, Map DepßTtmettt, Box ieJ;HS7. .G.P.0., 'WeUingwii.-Ad.vt,