The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1912. DECLARATION OF LONDON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 66, 13 March 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1912. DECLARATION OF LONDON.

In the report for 1911;' which• wasadopted at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Steamship Owners’ Associa ■ lion, the features of the year are re viewed, and particularly the Declaration of London. They remark that few of the incidents of the “fierce con troversy” can be reviewed with: satis faction from the point of view of the British shipowner or business man en gaged in international trade. The rights of neutrals trading with Britan when she is at war have been insisted on to the utmost, but the manifest and pressing difficulties, that beset British vessels trading at neutral whilst other nations are at war have been ignored and wholly unprovided for. The, Association, the report recites, passed unanimously, both in 1909 and 1910, resolution! in favour of the ratification of the Declaration, being satisfied of the advantages that would follow, particularly for British vessels as the carriers oi ono half of the oversea trade of tinworld. They claim that their view has been justified by experience of tin .war between Italy and Turkey. Italy accepted the law as set forth in the Declaration; hence British traders, and particularly those concerned in the regular steamer lines to the Mediterranean, have been relieved from much risk and anxity. The Associa tion therefore trust most earnestly that a determined effort will lie made to arrive at international agreement. Otherwise the country must drift back into the position it was in during the war between Russia and Japan, a position strongly condemned at the time byLord Lansdowne.