The Archive · 1904

A Question of Neutrality

The establishment of wireless telegraphy here by a newspaper is not unlikely to raise an important question of international law, and the rights of neutral Powers. A British vessel, chartered by a war correspondent, by means of a wireless telegraph station on British territory, is used to inform the whole wo: ld of important military and naval movements of one belligerent, which the said belligerent might desire should not be revealed to his enemy. War correspondents, following the movements of an army on land, have their messages rigorously censored. Little control—-if any—can be exercised by either belligerent over a correspondent, who transmits nows from a neutral vessel vit neutral territory.

The War, Little news is obtainable here. I hear from several sources that a large fleet of transports, convoyed by Japanese warships, has been soon in the Yalu estuary. If true, this news furnishes evidence of the complete demoralization of the Russian naval forces. The Japanese seem to consider they have nothing more to fear from the Russian fleet.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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