THE RED SEA POLICE SHIPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 169, 21 July 1904, Page 3

THE RED SEA POLICE SHIPS.

i —• — HAVE RIGHT TO SEARCH NEUTRALS. AN EMINENT JURIST'S OPINION. LONDON, July 20. Sir Frederick Pollock, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, considers the Russian ships, if properly commissioned warships, have a right to search neutrals for contraband and to overhaul mails for Japan, though ho has never heard of a right to detain or remove mails. The Captured Malacca. ON THE WAY TO THE PRIZE COURT. (Received July 20, 10.8 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. The Malacca, flying the Russian flaig l , h<as entered Suez Canal, bound for Libau (in the Baltic) or Sevastopol (Black Sea port) where prize courts are held. A sentry refused the Peninsular Company's Suez agent permission to board the Malacca. The vessel carried 300 tons of Government stores for Homg w kong, and some cargo for Yokohama. Detained Malls. A GERMAN PROTEST. LONDON, July 20. Two of the Prinz Heinrich's mailbags are still retained by the Smolensk. One contained British and the other Italian mail despatches. Russia, in reply to the German protest regarding the Heinrich's majils, declares that it knows nothing of the affair, and must await the Smolensk's report. " Guilty of Piracy." NEWSPAPER OPINION. (Received July 20, 11.29 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. The Berlin newspaper Allgemoine Zeitung declares that international lawyers consider the Smolensk guilty of piracy in taking the Prinz Heinrich's mails. The American press considers Russia's action in arousing Britain and alienating German feeling is nably stupid.