Perhaps the best known of all legends is that which contains the question which has occupied the attention of men of all times and climes—"'Am I my brother's keeper?" Simple as it seems, there are many ways in which, when turned into @ proposition, this subject may be viewed. When first put, there were, according to the story, but two brothers in the world, and one of those had been killed. There are now, perhaps, a thousand millions more or less," Hence much complexity, to which war adds. Some present difficulties arise from incomplete agreements such, for example as the unratified ' Declaration of Tondon. Others grow out of the actual condition of affairs, and their connexion with matters which have not only been agreed to and reduced to writing, but to which the sign manual of Great Powers has been attached. It is to some of these that we would call attention.
Regarding the duties of belligerents, the very first of four universally recognized rules ordains that nations shall_ refrain from carrying on hostilities within neutral territory. The other three do little more than amplify this. All the world now knows how Germany has repudiated this rule. But all the world does not know that in so doing she has been guilty.of a breach of faith, not only to Luxemburg and Belgium whose territories she has wilfully invaded. not only to Great Britain, France, and Rus-ce-signatories with herself to use treat ies guaranteeing the very tat tights she has trodden under fort bnt also to other lands outside
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