Thomas Erskine Holland: “A submarine-telegraph cable uniting two neutral territories is inviolable.”

To put an end to this confusion, I venture to suggest that, in concert with our Allies, the Declaration should be finally consigned to oblivion.

The Declaration of London has, most fortunately, never been ratified by the Government of Great Britain.

Either let its place be taken by some clear and simple statement of unquestioned prize law, for the use of commanders and Officials, ... or established principles take care of themselves, certain doubtful points only being dealt with from…

Already in the first weeks of the war England had renounced the Declaration of London, the contents of which her own delegates had recognised as binding in international law.