State responsibility — Acts and omissions of State organs and officials — Executive action — Destruction at sea by naval vessel of wreck of dangerous ship carrying dynamite and abandoned by crew — Action for damages brought by owners and insurers of vessel — Whether French State liable for destruction of vessel by its navy outside territorial waters — Fault of owner of vessel

Sea — High seas — Wreck — Danger to shipping — Destruction of warship of riparian State — Whether State incurring any liability to owners of vessel

Jurisdiction — High seas — Ensuring the safety of traffic — Wrecks — Dangerous cargo — Destruction of sinking ship with cargo by naval vessel — Jurisdiction of municipal courts over claim for damages against State which ordered the destruction of the vessel — The law of France