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Show rlWMEOiiO Bei0TE8T Submarine Warfare of thej Central Powers Declared Outside the Law. LOXnOX. Feb. 11, 11 :-"0 a. m. ! lie1 iter's Copenhagen vor respondent reports re-ports that Norway, .Sweeten and Denmark have handed 1 to the German .ministers i .lentical notes p'rotesUng against the naval measures taken by Germany and Austria-! Unitary and making all reservations reserva-tions regarding the loss of life and the material damage 'resulting. The notes affirm that no belligerent has the right to prohibit peaceful navigation navi-gation through zones the limits of which are verv distant from enemy coasts, which could lie blockaded only in a legiti- mate manner. Tiie povernmenis recall j the universally recog-nized law on naval ; bMckPde. namelv. that a neutral ship cannot be captured if it is not making , any attempt: to violate the blockadenc! ' that in the event of a ship being caput cap-ut re -1 it must be brought before a prize 1 court. ; Finally, the rotes point out tiie mea-I mea-I sures announced will be all the more contrarv to the principles of international law if, 'as tiie tenor of the communications communica-tions of the impeiial governments seem to indicate, they are to be applied without with-out distinction to all ships enteiing the zones described and consequently to those not bound for enemy ports, but on the wav from one neutral port to another. On the ground of the considerations set forth above, the governments formallv protest, against the measures taken by Germany and Austria-Hungary and make all reservations" with regard to the loss of human life and to material damage which may result from them. t STOCKHOLM. Feb. 14, via Tondon. .V.30 p. m. "This time the Hammarskjoeld government has the whole Swedish nation na-tion on its side with the exception of a few denationalized individuals," says the laberal pro-entente lagens Niheler in concluding its editorial today on the Scandinavian nations' protest against the submarine blockade. The Conservative pro-German newspapers, the 1 Stockholm Drgbiad and Svenska P;rbladet, likewise like-wise commend in Die highest terms the attitude of the Scandinavian countries. The note, says the Dagblad, is a defense of the inalienable right of iveutrals to the free use of the open seas. Tiie measures of tiie central powers, it declares, cannot can-not be acknowledged as a valid blockade and the German theory that the British proclamations ,of 1914 and 1917 created a now international law regarding war zones cannot be recognized as having any foundation. The Drgbiad insists that the protest is no 'judicial gesture of a platonio nature.'-' as is shown by its reservation of full liberty of action in case lives or property prop-erty suffer. "The note," it comments, "is couched in firm and definite terms, which ought to ma ke an impression in the countries against whose illegal mea- ! sures it is directed." I This newspaper says the note proves ; Swein's impartial neutrality; that (lie country's grave protest a.cainst the violation vio-lation of the laws of naval warfare does not depend on sympathy for one sirle or the oilier, but is supported by a united people, whose protests against injury to their countrymen's lives and property are far more-vhan a juristic formality. |