RIFLING MAIL-BAGS
ANOTHER BREACH OF THE HAGUE CONVENTION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("limes" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, August 2. ■The Press Bureau says that tlie Government reasserts that l.ho German military authorities undoubtedly opened numbers of letters carried by the Swedish steamship Bjorn, despite the official German denial. The Government also contradicts the German statement that some mailbags were opened because they contained wire-cutters, which are contraband, adding: "It is absurd to suppose that- the" British Government would have recourse to an international lettor sorvico to import such bulky articles; nevertheless, whatever contents the opened letters were suspected to contain, the German action was a breach of The Hague Convention, whicli provides for the inviolability of all mails on neutral vessels of tho High Seas."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 7
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125RIFLING MAIL-BAGS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 7
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