The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-29
PRoF WOoLsEH's ADDRESS.
TalIzs on International Law and the
 Eastern. War.

Tn I.ampson Iyceum yesterday after noon Prof. Theodore s. Woolsey of the Yale Law school delivered another in the course of lectures open to the stu dents at the Yale summer school. Prof. Woolsey was introduced by Prof. E. Hershey Sheath, head of the summer school. Prof Woolsey spoke on Some Points in International Law which Have Arisen during the Present Trou-. bles in the East" Prof. Woolsey considered the new cases arising from the war, with the application to them of the principles of international law.
 The first case is the way the war was begun. Russia says that Japan attacked her without justification, be- ginning the war. Few wars have been begun with a formal declaration. The only case where an announcement was made was in 1870, when France sent a, messenger to Berlin. That was most unusual and unnecessary.
 IA war is led up to by diplomatic steps and the step at the end of this series is what is expected.'
 Another case which arose was that of the correspondent of the London Times, who fitted a wireless telegraphy mast upon his vessel, the High Moon. There were no precedents for this case, but there are on record cases analo- gous to both. The nearest is that of the submarine cable. In the Philip pine war our cable had been cut and our troops thought it desirable that oen be laid to Hong Kong, neutral port. We were told by England that this was a breach of the neutrality laws. This was a reasonable opinion.
 China, following the analogy of the submarine cable case, was right in al- lowing Russia to use a cable erected before the war and was justified in not allowing Russia to erect a new cable after the war began.
 Tn the case of the war correspond ents. Russia interfered with the High Moon scheme and said that any cor respondent who used any unusual means to transmit his news would be treated as spy. We know that this is unjust and illogical. The Japanese tried by gentle means to stop the re- porting and drew line some distance from the fighting, shutting off the High Moon.
 The cry Of the correspondents for being shut off has little force. The question of the treatment of corre- spondents in future wars is interesting. Shall they be subjected to a censorship if they are to use wireless telegraphy? :? That is not feasible. Can a license system be adopted? That leads to an impossible situation. Correspondents would be kept in a certain field and would get nothing worth sending. The war correspondent has got to go in future wars where he sends informa- tion which gets back to the other side. He cannot be endured, and that is the conclusion reached by the naval war college at Newport.
 The question of extending hospital ity to belligerents by neutrals has to be settled. A Russian gunboat took fefuge. in Shanghai and Japanese boat was sent to block it up. Japan accused China of giving refuge to an hnemy's ship. In land warfare the ease has been settled and the same rules apply in this case. China want ed to do the right thing, but Russia bad too much influence with her to let her and she allowed the ship to ra- main some time.