Note 675 — SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO CHAPTER XIX
Reading edition
Translated from the statement published in the Japanese press on March 3, 1904.
Professor Sakuye Takahashi enumerated in the Kokumin (February 27–29, 1904) some of the modern European wars in which declarations of war did not precede the opening of hostilities. He mentioned twelve such cases between 1715 and 1863, besides ten cases between 1700 and 1853 in which Russia was on the offensive. For these latter instances, he refers to Colonel J. P. Maurice’s Hostilities without Declaration of War, pp. 12, 16, 22, 34, 38, 49, 50, 55, 64.