Every specialist on International Law has been called upon to express his views, so as to aid as much as possible in the solution of such problems as the establishment of hospital liners in the blockaded ports, the disarmament of belligerent warships and internment of belligerents in neutral ports, the destruction of captured merchantmen, the relation of the support of pris oners to their employments, etc., all of which questions have heretofore been either inadequately treated or not referred to. I have never hesitated to publish my personal Opinions on these problems, expecting that they might be freely criticised.