Effect of Outbreak of War — Effect on Enemy Merchant Ships in Port — United States and Hague Convention No. VI.

Warfare at Sea — Measures and Instruments of Force — Status of Merchantmen under Hague Convention No. XIII — Test of Status of Vessels — Readiness for Use by Belligerent — Conversion of Merchantmen into Men-of-War — Reconversion — Acts of Sabotage and Conversion — Men-of-War and Auxiliary Ships — Differentiation between Auxiliary Ships and Merchant Vessels.