onventions" of 1899 and 1907, and
the Geneva "convention" of 1906, all duly equipped with provisions for
ratification. Such provisions are also inserted in certain other recent
agreements dealing with aerial bombardments, gases, and expanding
bullets, which it has nevertheless pleased their contrivers to
misdescribe as "declarations." Equally so misdescribed was the deceased
Declaration of London, with a view, apparently, to suggesting, as was
far from being the case, that it was a mere orderly statement of
universally accepted principles, creating no new obligations.

Is it not to be desired that all future attempts for the international
regulation of warfare should not only be specifically made subject to
ratification, but should also, in accordance with fact, be described as
"conventions"?

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. E. HOLLAND.
Oxford, August 13 (1916).

THE DECLARATION OF PARIS

Sir,--If Mr. Gibson Bowles, whose courteous letter I have just been
reading, will look again at my letter of the 18th, I think he will see
that I there carefully distinguished between the Declaration of Paris,
which, as is notorious, must be accepted as a whole or not at all, and
the rules set forth in it, "except, possibly, the prohibition of
privateering," which I thought, for the reasons which I stated, might be
taken to have become a portion of International Law.

I must be excused from following Mr. Bowles into a discussion of the
bearing of those rules upon the Order in Council of March 11, 1915--a
large and delicate topic, which must be studied in elaborate dispatches
exchanged between this country and the United States.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. E. HOLLAND.
Oxford, August 17 (1916).

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SECTION 8

_Assassination_

THE NATAL PROCLAMATION

Sir,--It was reported a few days ago that the Natal Government had
offered a reward for Bambaata, dead or alive. I have waited for a
statement that no offer of the kind had been made, or that it had been
made by some over-zealous official, whose act had been disavowed. No
such statement has appeared. On the contrary, we read that "the price
placed upon the rebel's head has excited native cupidity." It may
therefore be desirable to point out that what is alleged to have been
done is opposed to the customs of warfare, whether against foreign
enemies or rebels.

By Art. 28 (_b_) of The Hague Regulations, "it is especial