HAGUE TRIBUNAL.
ANOTHER GERMAN BREACH. MAILBAGS OPENED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, August 2. The Press Bureau states that the Government reasserts that the German military authorities undoubtedly opened large numbers of letters carried on the Swedish steamship Bjyrn, despite the official German denial. It also contradicts the German statement that some mail bags were opened because thc.v contained wirecutters, which were contraband, adding that it was absurd to suppose that the British Government would have recourse to an international letter service to import such bulky articles.
Nevertheless, whatever the opened letters wore suspected to contain, the German action is a breach of The Hague Convention, which provides for the inviolability of all mails' 011 neutral .vessels on the high seas.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1915, Page 5
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