94-98, reproduced in the _Revue de Droit International_, the _Revue Generale de Droit International Public_, and the _Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerrecht und Bundesstaatsrecht_, for the same year.
The view there maintained was affirmed by the Court of Appeal in _Porter_ v.

_Freudenberg_, [1915] 1 K.B.857, _at_ p.

874.
_Enemy Ships in Port_ ENEMY SHIPS IN PORT Sir,--The action taken by the United States in seizing German merchant ships lying in their ports will raise several questions of interest.

It is, however, important at once to realise that, apart from anything which may be contained in old treaties with Prussia, their hands are entirely free in the matter.

The indulgences so often granted: to such ships during the last 60 years, notably by themselves in the Spanish War of 1898, under endlessly varying conditions, have been admittedly acts of grace, required by no established rule of international law.
The United States are also unaffected by The Hague Convention No.