| Show he Privateer In Modern War i l Iho i n rm nt ht ts Is about Issue i C I n ul Stu IU pt a In n to foreign nn w js 1 r r I cut It hip a liB as to toT s aE FI gp II I T I awakened renewed r h hn y personage that i st II ri t though It Is not notY at 1 tf r t v In lust Just what reo re rebr un iy Y lands to the rest of br M now hOW t I f D lr y a r ri i r 11 r 4 i I f w M 1 iI led t k 4 u Sr w Y r t 1 s p r r rI I I P I a aMi Mi r sr ti 4 s i r rI I I IJ i i t J i ti t ar r i ir r i PRIVATEER bF 1 i t t r rV y V Y t I Id r d If j r l t r I a war In which he Is ista Us ta subsidiary Jut but none the J ting UnK part r as the term Is applied to 10 1 d nl as armed vessels l t tul sipped ped and by one oner r rl le persone Jut but sailing alling c called l a let lei leir r u This letter leller of marque marquee marquet e I t t ty a state or nil na nad d 1 lt It u ra Ih the person or per J j t I hm h m it II is III granted to attack J z at al sea elt vessels or other prop i r enemy v S r i nations of the it true abolished 1 T rs S ago The fhe American gO gOI gov r I hd against the Iho Irne It II use 11 Ind ed I Franklin who In 1 i a forbidding r It tsue or of letters ot of In 1 f 7 l n the United 4 41 P a by In 1766 r ate last time this country In InI I 11 was In the war wary 17 y a England n at It a time lime Orb was th Ih accepted pr practice J I 1111 u t II the damage dono to was tremendous and and very pry In Interesting volume volum them haw have been too hBO have 1 t fo a 0 the life lite and adventures r rough riders of the waves One hu has only to remember such h historic names pa I hr the Paul laUl Jones Jon the Bunker the Un Union lon ion the tagie and tha Yankee to realize realise the extensive part which the privateer took Its III that early war ot of ours The 1 Ii I 2 1 r 5 r 1 rt t g V N j g II 1 il l A l 1 4 pJ r L I 7 1 J r 2 r rr rt r t r rI rc c I J THe op of TODAY I bravery braer and dash and energy ot of their men Inen and commanders were ere and are still recounted In many a good sea yarn srn But in tUG 1610 the parties to the rB Lion of at Paris latt brought about a nw new erA erAIn eraIn In international law IJ by four new rules relating to 10 warfare at red Md one of which h hVal was Val that thai the practice of Is 18 and remains abolished Other ta nu cone Ilona were yete invited J to 10 give ghe their to this new principle on the tha of the acceptance ot of all ail or non nene 1 and most of at those thole which ar are known DB an state dill did so It was IJ pointed out that the of at all such expeditions being plunder the captain and officers went often otten without foff honor ald ad the crews more often than Ihan not were a motley molly aggregation lion tion ot of reckless Now how that steam has supplanted the sailing tes el ael and coal h has to be booked l upon as aB contraband of r n a 1 new complex complexIon Ion Is put upon Ih the gentle art ot of While the element of dan lilt air was neer absent In Ih the pursuit of at such lu h work and the shadow ot of the han hang hangman man mana noose nuon always thing over a crew from captain to cabin boy It once gene over taken II by the mole mo power powerfully tully arm armed Ad cruiser ot of the enemy nem the ho present status of the authorized pirate In such fluch case asel as al that of at the war ar makes make It extremely unlikely that Great Britain that her dose commerce going gain and coming In all parts of the world will be pr preyed J on and harassed high seas It oust Inual be remembered too that the having accepted the ot of Great Britain by the Ihl treaty trealy of today files II a nog fing or of very fry dubious national statue But Dut even though the flag lIag of the South should be recognized on th the high seas all there are still lUll IraI kcal In the tho WRY way of the leau Or of letters of marque by R a govern meat ment that haq no naval bases baStl and n m Such vessels could not he I armed and equipped In n any neutral port InrI without making the tho government Ir sassing the same liable In heavy darll ages ag to the British government This III ii fact would tall fall under the tho very WIY urine pI ph laid down by the tho now fam ue In ban lama cats case Not such UI coal In tiny any part or of tilt the world lorld without B a if t the nit of neutrality Such action would natural naturally ly Iy be almost equivalent to 10 a declaration of at war and would be justly regarded os as such uch by Notwithstanding this however there art are of the tho equipment or of privateers by friends of at the Trans frana vast The naval them themselves selves settI seem to 10 erect nt some ome sort of den dan daner denger ger er for loda today their Bro are patrol line hog the hight taB seas and keeping on an eye ee on all suspicious looking craft |
