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Abstract

International Law — Sources — Filling of Gaps — Novelty of Action — Application of General Principles

Responsibility of States — Executive Action — Payment of Compensation for Acts Done in Legitimate Self-Defence.

Responsibility of States — In General — Compensation for Legitimate Acts Done in Self-Defence — Cutting of Submarine Cables by Belligerent.

Aliens — Treatment of — Non-Discrimination — Ex gratia Payment of Compensation to Subjects and Some Neutrals — Refusal of Payment to Others — Legality of.

Aliens — Respect for Property — Neutral Subjects — Military Operation — Cutting of Submarine Cables — Compensation.

Arbitration — Law Applicable — Authorisation to Decide in Accordance with International Law and Equity — Whether Implying Award of Compensation Unwarranted by a Rule of International Law.

Arbitration — Law Applicable — Filling of Gaps — Novelty of Action — Application of General Principles.

Arbitration — Award — Recommendation of ex gratia Payments.

High Seas — Freedom of — Restriction in Favour of Belligerents — Submarine Cables.

War — Neutral Property — Compensation for Destruction — Submarine Cables — War of United States with Spain in 1898 — Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables of 1884 — Novelty of Action in International Law — Filling of Gaps — Belligerent Rights in Sea Warfare — Compensation in Case of Exercise of Legitimate Rights — Right of Self-Defence — Discrimination as against Subjects and Other Neutrals — Equity — Power to Award Compensation on the Ground of — Recommendations for ex gratia Payments.