Note 110 — PART III USAGES OF WAR AS REGARDS NEUTRAL STATES

The considerable reenforcement of the Servian Army in the year 1876 by Russian Freelances was an open violation of neutrality, the more so as the Government gave the officers permission, as the Emperor himself confessed later to the English Ambassador in Livadia. The English Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870, Art. 4,A forbids all English subjects during a war in which England remains neutral, to enter the army or the navy of a belligerent State, or the enlistment for the purpose, without the express permission of the Government. Similarly the American law of 1818. The United States complained energetically during the Crimean War of English recruiting on their territory.

A [This Act applies to British subjects wherever they may be, and it also applies to aliens, but only if they enlisted or promoted enlistment on British territory. For a full discussion of the scope of the Act see R. v. Jameson (1896), 2 Q.B. 425.—J. H. M.]