TREATMENT OF NEUTRAL SHIPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 182, 5 August 1904, Page 3

TREATMENT OF NEUTRAL SHIPS.

RUSSIA IGNORES LAW OF NATIONS. JESSEN INTERPRETED. LONDON, August 3. London newspapers interpret the publication of Admiral Jessen's report regarding the Knight Commander and Teo to mean that Russia disregards the settled practice of nations as regards neutrals, while in tile case of the Malacca she ignored the validity of tjie British, protest against the breach of an international act concerning the Dardanelles, [and merely ascribes the release to the declaration that the Malacca carried Government stores. THE CZAR'S REGULATIONS. WILL NOT COVER KNIGHT COMMANDER.. LONDON. August it. The Standard says that unless it can be shown that the railway material aboard: the Knight Commander and the fish alward the German steamer Teo, which was also sunk, were intended for actual use by the Japanese troops, they cannot be considered contraband, and the Czar's regulations cannot make Uicni so.t PASSPORTS FOR THE CANAL. RAILWAY MATERIAL ON THE SCANDIA. LONDON, August 3. The issue of passes) to German steamers through tine Suez Canal 'and their protection from sea.ij.ch was unauthorised, and the system has been suspended, pending instructions. BERLIN. August 1. The National Zeitung states that the steamer Soamliu, recently raided by a Russian volunteer cruiser, carried 400 tons of railway material. THE MALACCA INCIDENT. SIDELIGHT ON THE VESSEL'S ARREST. (Received August 5, 1.1 a.m.) LONDON, August 4. Truth states that when the Malacca was at Antwerp Gorman (Inns asked her agent to take contraband aboard, Subsequently this was shipped on a German vessel, which passed through the Red Sea without hindrance. It is alleged that the Russians arrested the Malacca in the belief that she had accepted such contraband cargo.