A neutral State restrains, under certain circumstances, the export of coal, not because coal is contraband, but because such export is converting the neutral territory into a base of belligerent operations.
Holland explains the rationale behind a neutral state's restriction on coal exports during wartime, emphasizing the distinction between contraband and military strategy.
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The elaborate classification of contraband had to be at once thrown overboard, and most of the remaining provisions of the Declaration proved to be inapplicable to modern warfare.
The Declaration of London has, most fortunately, never been ratified by the Government of Great Britain.
This power has been so freely exercised, and large portions of the Declaration, not thereby affected, have proved to be so inapplicable to modern conditions, as disclosed by the war, that the document, so far from providing reliable…
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