 The task would be a digging proposition, pure and simple. A cardinal article of faith of the legal status of the canal is its absolute internationality. By its constitution no government can employ it in war time to the exclusion or disadvantage of another...  East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan - Page 12by Frederic Courtland Penfield - 1907 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frank Vincent - Africa - 1895 - 796 pages
...purchased $20,000,000 worth of shares. A convention was signed in 1888 by which the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in peace or war. The traffic is now ten times what it was during the... | |
 | Archibald Ross Colquhoun - Nicaragua - 1895 - 508 pages
...more than four times its par value. By a convention signed October 2Qth, 1887, the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in time of peace or war. By the opening of the Suez Canal, the most... | |
 | Frank Vincent - Africa - 1895 - 800 pages
...purchased $20,000,000 worth of shares. A convention was signed in 1888 by which the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in peace or war. The traffic is now ten times what it was during the... | |
 | ARCHIBALD ROSS COLQUHOUN - 1898 - 836 pages
...more than four times its par value. By a convention signed October 29th, 1887, the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in time of peace or war. By the opening of the Suez Canal, the most... | |
 | R. J. Cornewall-Jones - Merchant marine - 1898 - 590 pages
...Kong ,, Shanghai „ Yokohama By a convention, signed on October 29, 1888, the Suez Canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it, both in peace and war. EXTRACTS FROM THE OFFICIAL REGULATIONS FOR... | |
 | Aden, Gulf of - 1900 - 580 pages
...an international convention, signed October 24th, 1887, it was declared neutralized. It is exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are allowed to pass through it either in peace or war. The entrance is conveniently situated at the inner... | |
 | Frederic Courtland Penfield - Asia - 1907 - 384 pages
...Port Sai'd, consequently, a bronze effigy of the man for a few years known as "Le grand Franfais," visage directed toward Constantinople (where once...Egyptian. They claim that Britain's position is immensely strengthened by the presence in Cairo and Alexandria, within a few hours' journey of the canal, of... | |
 | Frederic Courtland Penfield - Asia - 1907 - 382 pages
...with dredges and labor-saving machinery, as a fact. The enterprise cost practically $100,000,000— a million dollars a mile; and half this was employed...Egyptian. They claim that Britain's position is immensely 12 strengthened by the presence in Cairo and Alexandria, within a few hours' journey of the canal,... | |
 | Louis Phillipe McCarty - Jīzah (Egypt) - 1907 - 606 pages
...widened and deepened several years ago. By an agreement signed Oct. 29, 1888, the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in peace or war. During the year 1906, some 4000 ships passed through... | |
 | J. Fitzgerald Lee - Great Britain - 1923 - 296 pages
...where the new railway crosses which goes from Cairo to Jerusalem. The canal is neutral ; it is exempted from blockade ; and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are allowed to pass through it, in peace or war. Still it was made to serve the strategy of Wolseley's... | |
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