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THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEA 



^-*^v t]/L ths Vtfcek **wr fatty wtm-h .-upturrd 



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Fig. 14. Facsimile of part of the chart, showing where the. "Twee Gebroeders" 

 were taken. From Robinson, Admiralty Reports. 



vessel was "lying within the limits to which neutral im- 

 munity is usually conceded. She was lying in the eastern 

 branch of the Eems, within what may, I think, be considered 

 as a distance of three miles, at most, from East Friesland. An 



