College, having specially in view matters which are likely to be advanced at the next Hague conference, as those upon which doctrine is developing and opinion is divergent.

W. L. RODGERS,

Captain, United States Navy,
President Naval War College.

UNITED STATES NAVAL WAR COLLEGE,

Newport, R. I., August 9, 1912.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

SITUATION I (a), (b), (c).—Merchant vessels and insurgents...

Solutions (a), (b), (c).

Notes:

General...

Why important for United States....

Development of acknowledgment in United States.....

Action of the United States, 1912..

Page.

9

10

11

12

14

SITUATION II.-Air craft in war (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (ƒ).

Solutions (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (ƒ)..

Notes:

Early recognition of military value of balloons...

Hague conventions..

Changed conditions since 1907..

Position of France, 1907....

60

Relations of Cuba to the United States, in consequence

of Spanish-American War. . . . .

99

Relations of the United States and Cuba, by conven-

tional agreements...

100

Opinion of the Institute of International Law, 1875.

145

SITUATION V-Taking coal in neutral port-Continued.

SITUATION VI.-Conversion of merchant ships into ships of war.

158

159

Propositions at the second Hague conference, 1907..

Questionnaire at second Hague conference, 1907...

Discussion at second Hague conference, 1907....

Hague convention relative to the conversion of mer-

chant ships into war ships..

162

164

165

169

Retransformation, second Hague conference, 1907...

Attitude of naval powers in 1908...

173

174