Jackson, Dalmatia, the Quamero and Istria (Oxford, 1887), gives
the best account of Ragusan architecture and antiquities. The
most accurate native history is G. Gelcich (Gelčić), Dello Sviluppo civile di Ragusa (Ragusa, 1884). The course of Ragusan trade may
be studied in C. J. Jireček, Die Handelsstrassen und Bergwerke von Serbien, &c. (Prague, 1879); and Heyd, Histoire du commerce du Lévant au moyen âge (Leipzig, 1885).
RAGUSA, a town of Sicily in the province of Syracuse, 70 m. S.W. of Syracuse by rail and 32 m. direct. It consists of an upper (Ragusa Superiore) and a lower town (Ragusa Inferiore), each of which forms a separate commune. Pop. (1906) of the former, 35,529; of the latter, 866. It has some churches with fine Gothic architecture, and is commercially of some importance, a stone impregnated with bitumen being quarried and prepared for use for paving slabs by being exposed to the action of fire. On the hill occupied by the castle of Ragusa Inferiore stood the ancient Hybla Heraea, a Sicel town, under the walls of which Hippocrates of Gela fell in 491 B.C. A Greek settlement seems to have arisen in the neighborhood close to the present railway station, about the middle of the 6th century B.C., and to have disappeared at the end of the 5th. Orsi points out that the remains (cuttings in the rock and a part of the castle wall), attributed by Freeman (History of Sicily, i. 163) to Sicel times, are in reality post-Roman.
See Orsi in Notizie degli scavi (1899), 402–418.
RAHWAY, a city of Union county, New Jersey, U.S.A., in
the north-eastern part of the state, on the Rahway river
and about 20 m. S.W. of New York City. Pop. (1890) 7105;
(1900) 7935, of whom 1345 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S.
census) 9337. Rahway is served by the main line of the
Pennsylvania railroad, and is connected with neighboring
cities by electric lines. It has wide streets and attractive
parks, and is, to some extent, a residential suburb of New York
and other neighbouring cities. It has a public library (1864),
with upwards of 17,000 volumes, and about 112 distant is
the New Jersey Reformatory (1903), to which prisoners between
the ages of sixteen and thirty may be sentenced instead of
to the State Prison. There are various manufactures. Rahway
was first settled in 1720, and was named in honour of the Indian
chief Rahwack, whose tribe owned the site and the surrounding
territory; it was chartered as a city in 1858. For many
years Rahway was popularly known as Spanktown, and in
January 1777, during the War of Independence, a skirmish,
known as the battle of Spanktown, was fought here.
RAICHUR, a town of India, in the state of Hyderabad, at the junction of the Madras and Great Indian Peninsula railways, 351 m. N.E. from Madras. Pop. (1901) 22,165. It gives its name to the doab, or tract between the rivers Kistna and Tungabhadra, which was the scene of much fighting between Mahommedans and Hindus as debatable land during the 16th century. It contains a well-preserved fort and two old mosques. It is a thriving centre of trade, with several cotton-presses.
RAID, in the language of international law, an invasion
by armed forces, unauthorized and unrecognized by any state,
of the territory of a state which is at peace. Piracy is the
attack on the high sea of any vessel by an armed vessel, not
authorized or recognized by any state, for the purpose of
robbery. A raid for the purpose of carrying off movable
property and converting it to the use of the captors would
still be distinguishable from piracy, because it was committed
on territory subject to an exclusive territorial jurisdiction.
Where the attack or invasion by an armed ship not authorized
or recognized by any state is not for the purpose of capturing
property, it is properly speaking a raid and not piracy. An
attack though in time of peace, by armed forces authorized or
recognized by a regular government, is not a raid but an act
of war, there being a government responsible for the act committed.
The fact of any act being authorized, not by the
supreme government, but by a chartered company, or by
its governing officer, makes no difference in international law,
the directorate of a chartered company exercising its powers
by delegation of the state under which it holds its charter.
The acts of its armed forces cannot in reason be distinguished
from the acts of the armed forces of the state government.
Thus compensation is just as much due for them as for the
deliberate acts of the state itself, and any claim of an injured
state can only be preferred against the state to which the
company belongs. Invasion by the regular forces of a state,
or by the regular forces of its delegated authority, being an
act of war, the laws of war apply to it, and, on capture, such
forces, or any members or part of such forces, are prisoners
of war. On the other hand, the state whose subordinate
authorities commit acts of war against a friendly state has
the option of following them up as a commencement of hostilities,
or of giving satisfactory compensation to the invaded state.
Where the invasion isnot by forces subject to the orders of a
state, the invaded state has the right to apply its own laws
for the repression of disturbances in its territory. Thus, in
the so-called Jameson Raid, the Transvaal government had
no right to treat Dr Jameson, an officer holding his powers
under the British government, and his subordinates, as outlaws,
and it was probably so advised, and the British government owed proper compensation for an act for the consequences of which, under international law, it was responsible.
British domestic law punishes raiding under the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90).[1] Section 11 of this act provides as follows.—“If any person within the limits of His Majesty’s dominions, and without the licence of His Majesty, prepares or fits out any naval or military expedition to proceed against the dominions of any friendly state, the following consequences shall ensue: (1) Every person engaged in such preparation or fitting out, or assisting therein, or employed in any capacity in such expedition, shall be guilty of an offence against this act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the Court before which the offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if awarded, may be either with or without hard labour. (2) All ships and their equipments, and all arms and munitions of war, used in or forming part of such expedition, shall be forfeited by His Majesty.” Section 12 provides for the punishment of accessories as principal offenders, and section 13 limits the term of imprisonment for any offence under the act to two years. In the Sandoval case (1886),[2] in which Colonel Sandoval, who was not a British subject, bought guns and ammunition and shipped them to Antwerp, where they were put on board a vessel, which afterwards made an attack on Venezuela, it was held that the offence of fitting out and preparing an expedition within British territory against a friendly state, under this section, is sufficiently constituted by the purchase of guns and ammunition in the British Empire, and their shipment for the purpose of being put on board a ship in a foreign port, with knowledge of the purchaser and shipper that they are to be used in a hostile demonstration against such state, though the shipper takes no part in any overt act of war, and the ship is not fully equipped for the expedition within any British port. Under the same section, Dr Jameson, administrator of the British South Africa Company, and his confederates were tried before the Central Criminal Court and sentenced to different terms of imprisonment.[3] The offence committed under a British act is, of course, that of preparing and fitting out an expedition on British territory. Any acts subsequently committed by any British expedition on foreign soil are beyond the operation of domestic legislation, and fall to be dealt with by the domestic legislation of the state within which they occur, or by diplomacy, as the case may be. (T. Ba.)
RAIFFEISEN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1818–1888), founder of the German system of agricultural co-operative banks, was
- ↑ The preamble to the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 stated that its object was “to make provision for the regulation of the conduct of Her Majesty’s subjects during the existence of hostilities between foreign states with which Her Majesty is at peace.” This preamble was repealed by the Statutes Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893.
- ↑ R. v. Sandoval, 1886, 56 Law Times, 526.
- ↑ R. v. Jameson, 1896, 2 Q.B., 425.
