t entre les deux cotes de la baie est de
douze milles marins de largeur, a moins qu'un usage continu
et seculaire n'ait consacre une largeur plus grande. Art.
4.--En cas de guerre, l'etat riverain neutre a le droit de
fixer, par la declaration de neutralite, ou par notification
speciale, sa zone neutre au dela de six milles, jusqu'a
portee du canon des cotes. Art. 5.--Tous les navires sans
distinction ont le droit de passage inoffensif par la mer
territoriale, sauf le droit des belligerants de reglementer
et, dans un but de defense, de barrer le passage dans la dite
mer pour tout navire, et sauf le droit de neutres de
reglementer le passage dans la dite mer pour les navires de
guerre de toutes nationalites." (_Annuaire de l'Institut_, t.
xiii. p. 329).

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. E. HOLLAND.
Oxford, June 1 (1904).

A French decree, of October 18, 1912, accordingly extends, when
France is neutral, her territorial waters to a distance of six
miles (11 kilom.) from low-water mark.

_(Cable-cutting)_

With the letters which follow, compare the article by the
present writer on "Les cables sous-marins en temps de guerre,"
in the _Journal de Droit International Prive_, 1898, p. 648.

The topic of cable-cutting, as to which the Institut de Droit
International arrived in 1879 at the conclusions set out in the
first of these letters, was again taken into consideration by
the Institut in 1902: see the _Annuaire_ for that year, pp.
301-332.

The Hague Convention; No. iv. of 1907, provides, in Art. 54,
that "submarine cables connecting occupied territory with a
neutral territory shall not be destroyed or seized, unless in
case of absolute necessity. They must be restored, and
compensation must be arranged for them at the peace."

Convention No. v., by Art. 3, forbids belligerents (1) to
install on neutral territory a radio-telegraphic station, or
any other apparatus, for communicating with their land or sea
forces; (2) to employ such apparatus, established by them there
before the war, for purely military purposes. By Art. 5, a
neutral Power is bound to permit nothing of the sort.

SUBMARINE CABLES

Sir,--The possibility of giving some legal protection to submarine
cables has been carefully considered by the Institut de Droit
International