Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-09-20
In 1914 a New Zealand reserve Of

o!ated war regulations by exporting
gold coin from Samoa carrying PEI
sonal letters from German prisoners
thcre to their friends interned in New
Zealand and carrying photographs Of
captured German wireless station as
well as manuscript for the editors Of
two New Zealand papers. He was
taken back 70 Samoa, tried there be-
fore a military court, convicted and
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
in New Zealand. The New Zealand
Supreme Court upheld the conviction
and sentence. Ire Gaudin, "a New
Zealand, l.. r. 40l.)
In 1915 South African was arrest
ed for violating Il martial law regu!a
ton forbidding seditious language and
held for trial before a special military
court. The Boer rebellion in South
Afrcia did not break out until after
the alleged scdtion was committed
The Supreme Court OF South Africa
refused to inquire into the matter or
to restrain the military court from
.rying a i those charged W tn violating
The martial law regulations, notwith-
standing that the civil courts remained
open. (Krohn " Minister for De-
fence, South Africa l.. r. u915) Ap
pe!late Division, 19l, 197-212.)
In l!l4 an Australian statute Eu-
horizing the detention and confine-
ment in military custody during the
war of any raturalized person whom
the Minister of Defence believed to be
disatfectcd or disloyal without thu
production Of any evidence whatever,
was upheld on the principal of the ne
cessity of dictatorship during a ma
tional war. Lloyd v. Wallach, q
Commonwealth l.. Il. 300, 31O-3l1.)
In 1878 after the hiahratta Govern
ment a. looIa had been ovcrthrown,
the PcisnEa Tor native absolute sovcr-
eign) sdrIuuucrcd and his country was
mission II commanding the occupied
territory, seized the treasure and ac-
count books III the custody OF the late
treasurer OF the native government.
hostilit !cs had ceased and the civil and
crimin;! courts of the East India Com
pany were open The trcasurer's eX-
ecutors recovered judgment for what
the Municipal Court of Bombay held
was the private property or private
treasure of the native ruler, as well a!
the treasurcr's own property, which
..ad been blended with tho private
treasure. The Privy Council held that
no civil court had jurisdiction that re-
course could only be had to the Gov
.rnment Of India Tor redress. (Elpkin-
stone V. Bedrcechund l Knapp P c..
ZIG, 3G0-l.)
The MiiiSan case is not in point.
The on.y question actually there decid-
ed was the legal but not constitutional
question that the statute relied upon
as basis Tor the military courts did
rot in fact give authority to establish
them ia the places where they were SET
up.
Stiebcr, the chief of the Prussian
spies in the wars of 1866 and 1870
says in his memoirs that in the pres.
ence OF Won Bismarck he told an of,
| liccr OF the Prussian General staff
tht his (invisibie) army of 10000
Prussin spies was as much a Prussiar
army as the Visible. and much
larger fighting army" of Won Mott.
Ike, and that Won Bismarck tacitly ad,
mitted it Nanoir, German Spy Sys,
tenn in France, 7O-72).
The militaristic fcudalsm which
has wantonly attacked US in the courcc
Of its struggle for world power o,
downfall, justifics its attempt to con.
luer the world by asserting that al
free governments are disintegrat:ng
hat all free peoples are ether corrupt
decadent or degenerate; that treaties
international law and constitutions arc
all alike, nothing but scraps Of paper
that feudaiism with its war lords
Krupps, spies and cannon fodder is 81
superior to all free governments ans
all free people that it is above all laws
divine, international or human: also i
asserts that no free government OF
free people have any rights which
ieudalism is bound to respect.
Any who assert that the Fedora
| Constitution enures to the benefit o.
| spies, secret agents Of or sympathizer.
with the public enemy, must claim tina
the trainers intended the Constitution