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Who Gets the War Prizes
Lieut Walter E Reno explains prize of war rules for captured merchant ships. A prize court appraises and sells the vessel, sailors may share proceeds, a relic of privateering now abolished in the United States. International prize court concept cited with nations joining The Hague system. The Isle de Luzon and Don Juan de Austria cited as prize examples.
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Chicago
Walter E. Reno
United States Navy
West Lake Street
North Fifth Avenue
United States
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
Great Britain
Italy
Japan
Russia
Isle de Luzon
Spain
Dewey
Manila Bay
Don Juan de Austria
Michigan