Regarding the question of compensation for losses, they are subject also to the rules and regulations governing belligerency.—Thus in principle they must be regarded as having no more than the status similar to that of any other private individuals in the country of their residence, according to the above mentioned rules and regulations.
"Such precedents have been set by the United States. Under circumstances wherein there does not, according to international law, exist a state of war, America maintains that there is no responsibility on her.párt to pay compensation for the losses inflicted by her Navy upon the nationals of third Powers and that the responsible party in that ease "was the country wherein those nationals resided, "This view of the United States Government was expressed in connection with the bombardment on July 13, 1854, of Greytown in Nicatagua, now known as San Juan del Norte, in 1854. Another precedent is the British Government's attitude with regard to the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.
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