THE ZAMBESI CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 169, 23 December 1914, Page 4

THE ZAMBESI CASE.

j SHIP AND CARGO CONFISCATED;. ! UNDOUBTED DEALING WITH THEj IiNEMY. | By Cable —Press Association —Copyright.. ! Received 22, 8.35 p.m. Sydney. December 22 | The Chief Justice, delivering liis rci served judgment in the Zambesi case*. ( said ill'.' Zambesi was a British ship*, registered in London on August 5. The (ieniiun clli-'als at Nauri received wircless information that Germany was at | war with UriUti:i, France, and Russia, j Wireless renin; iwWion between Nauri- , niul Rabaul failed, and it became important to find oilier means, because of the 1 | large number of coded wireless messages, received from Berlin for the German possessions ill the. I'acilic, presumably convening information required by theexistence of the war. The result was i that the agents at Nauri placed the , ship at the disposal of the enemy Gov- ' | eminent for the purposes most hostile in character, for not only had the agent ol' the enemy Government carried on a mifl'sion for the completion of tiic wirelte# apparatus at Rabaul for the important i purpose of maintenance of eommuniea- | tion between Berlin and the outlying '• j'ossessioiw of the German Empire, alstf inter.eonimunieation between those poa- , ! i sessions and ships of the enemy carry- - ing wireless, but tin? same agent was i carrying despatches of the utmost im- • porta nee. Furthermore the agent , actually sub-chartered the ship to the * i enemy Government. Therefore, he held • that the Federal Government's claim to i! condemnation of the ship and cargo must i, be sustained.