Show I m LIMIT Jt 1 11 From St Ht Petersburg leler It Is reported that the tho and American prow Press reports of ot tho the laying Ja of nt mines In tho the waters of ot tho the thoMao Mao Ilao Tuns Tung because of ot the to 10 International much Interest there thoro anti are the tho sub nub subJect Jell Jeet of tho the general that there thero I no talk talc of protests while wore ro being blown up UI It only on beginning after litter ships mot met with disaster ter Tho Insinuation con 1011 contained tamed heroin concerning c Japanese Jn yes Ven Venecia cols lIol IH III contemptible and In Is but hut another evidence of ot the hostility of oC tho the prose pros to tho the United nut Hut that Dint Is In aside from the tho main question In Involved VOlI That Is II tho the right of Russia to tolay tolay In lay submarine mines minIs beyond tho the three threemile mile limit that the ho has the Iho right with within in ht that limit cannot bo be disputed for Cor It la lIS d by y International law I The limit of ot three throe miles n fie as the limit of 01 n a 1 jurisdiction at nt sea soa HIB established on lime tho theory that It could command It II from tho the shore with ford fortt three miles bring the extreme extremo distance IlI lano nt at which cannon Pro Oro was effective tive awo Hut today cannon lire fire Is in effective times that distance This b being the cane the claim the tho right to extend their jurisdiction at nt R era oa n thin this for tor they say Any ay and Ind gay any so no log hog bully If U tho the y may ett II III u I out ant nt at sea Hen right or ton miles and throw shot and shell Into Int their works they are Justified In III protecting themselves that bar out by hy the menus menne that they tho thomay may within the tha three mile limit They rhey establish their by thu sumo same that the tho threemile limit was wan es ea c Their position Is logical but It lacks one Olin great grent recognition by hy tho tiro 1111 a Whether this tits will be 10 en romaine remains to 10 bt bu sigh sich International law JIW like nil other law rests on force oven even such Imoh In law us II tho the lenova clIon conven lion Whether can call her het new claim stick cannot now flaw bo ho decided Jf if t tho Iho refuse to 10 tee ree It It will be bo n a 1 very cry mat mal matt malter matter t ter r There are grave In tho the wy way no matter from what point of at view It la Is looked nt al n t Tf rr the limo now limit should bo Io established there me MC so soma mo Inter international national high waterways that might COhill rono under national jurisdiction This might bo ho time the once case In ha seine noine parts of ot the tho channel the Irish Inch channel the of or Gibraltar and many places In III the tho ho Fur 1 The Tho United lute hus already taken notice of at tho the orating mutter null through Us lie ministers abroad its UI attaches have luwe been bean to report upon the number and danger to neutral tram from war minoR mines floating oft off the tho tan Man const coast This information will bo be placed In tho lima hands of the tho naval Ron gall oral board who will whit submit Ha its views jows to 10 the and If It occasion warrants It II representations will bo ho made to 10 the tho belligerents It Jt Is II not Improbable that the tho matter malter having been brought to tho the fore tore will bu ho Bottled nettled eventually by reference r to an un International In congress or possibly Tho The tribunal It la IB an Oil Important question add has hoa two sides aides |