 | Frank Vincent - Africa - 1895 - 796 pages
...purchased $20,000,000 worth of shares. A convention was signed in 1888 by which the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in peace or war. The traffic is now ten times what it was during the... | |
 | Archibald Ross Colquhoun - Nicaragua - 1895 - 508 pages
...more than four times its par value. By a convention signed October 29th, 1887, the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in time of peace or war. By the opening of the Suez Canal, the most... | |
 | R. J. Cornewall-Jones - Merchant marine - 1898 - 608 pages
...Yokohama 11,651 14,497 2,846 By a convention, signed on October 29, 1888, the Suez Canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it, both in peace and war. EXTRACTS FROM THE OFFICIAL REGULATIONS FOR... | |
 | ARCHIBALD ROSS COLQUHOUN - 1898 - 836 pages
...more than four times its par value. By a convention signed October 29th, 1887, the canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in time of peace or war. By the opening of the Suez Canal, the most... | |
 | Aden, Gulf of - 1900 - 580 pages
...an international convention, signed October 24th, 1887, it was declared neutralized. It is exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are allowed to pass through it either in peace or war. The entrance is conveniently situated at the inner... | |
 | Frederic Courtland Penfield - Asia - 1907 - 382 pages
...at Port Said, consequently, a bronze effigy of the man for a few years known as "Le grand Fran$ais," 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... | |
 | J. Fitzgerald Lee - Great Britain - 1922 - 276 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... | |
 | Almanacs - 1915 - 724 pages
...the Canal is 9^14 metres (30 ft.). By a Convention, signed on 29 Oct., 1888, the Canal is 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 management of the Canal is entrusted to 32 Administrators,... | |
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Canal is 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... 