Excerpt from Great Britain and Neutral Commerce: Part I; Great Britain and the Right of Search; Part II; The British Blockade of Germany It is not surprising to find that the obvious convenience of search in a port, even in days before it was so necessary as at the present time, led belligerents to adopt this method. As was pointed out by Sir Edward Grey in his communication of the 10th February to the American Government. The present conflict is not the first in which this necessity has arisen as long ago as the Civil War the United States found it necessary to take vessels into the United States ports in order to determine whether the circumstances justified their detention. Sir Edward Grey also pointed out that the same need arose during the Russo Japanese War and also during the second Balkan War when British vessels were compelled to follow cruisers to some spot where the right of search could be more conveniently carried out, and that this was ultimately acquiesced in by the British Government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.