ARMED MERCHANTMEN.
The arming of selected merchantmen tW <by Germany, Italy and Austria, lias not pleased all the isJupovrkeys ia Ivtrtvkm. "It is only aiiother move iii the present big game: of Keggnr my neighbour," said one shipmaster when the new pkuo was announced. ' "It nover oceqstrs to the first fool, whea ho gets a gun, thai the next ohap will get one too, so that ho is not a bit safer than before be had it. The diplomacy of a choleric skipper, with gnus stud & grievance, might precipitate « big war,, white Sir Edward Grey w«s having. It's • aiad Iraeuwes a retrograde taking us back to the had days of pirates and privateers, when rapsi ehipfl armed. The present proposal, I srcppase, arises oat of the refusal of the Powers—JSpgLand, Craccwj Russia and Jap&n principally-—to to the American proposal at Tbe Hague Conference in 1907, to «xotßipk §tqbi esptwre the -private property of lsJligerenta at sea —that », to abolish piracy, Gerorany was ki fovTasu' of the Ameriea« proposal."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 4
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168ARMED MERCHANTMEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 4
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