It was proposed to treat as an enemy merchant vessel a neutral
vessel making, at the time, and with the sanction of the enemy
Government, a voyage which she has only been permitted to make
subsequently to the outbreak of hostilities or during the two preced-
ing months. This rule would be enforced notably on neutral merchant
vessels admitted by a belligerent to a service reserved in time of
peace to the national marine of that belligerent — ^for instance, to



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the coasting trade. Several Delegations formally rejected this
proposal, so that the question thus raised remains an open one.
Article 47.
Any individual embodied in the armed forces of the enemy who
is found on hoard a neutral merchant vessel may be made a prisoner
of war, even though there be no ground for the capture of the vessel.
