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Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited (Claim No. 36)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Extract

Not only does the cutting of cables appear not to be prohibited by the rules of international law applicable to sea warfare, but such action may be considered to be implicitly justified by that right of legitimate defense which forms the basis of the rights of any belligerent nation.

Type
Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1924

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