THE WHITE SEA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 7

THE WHITE SEA.

BRITAIN WSLL NOT YIELD. BROAD NATIONAL INTERESTS INVOLVED. THEY MUST BE SAFEGUARDED. By Telegraph.— Press Association — Copyrighb. (Received February 17, 9 a.m.). LONDON, 16th November. In the House of Lords, Viscount Morley, Lord President of the Council, in reply to a question by Lord Nunburnholme, said the British Government was resolved not to yield to Russia regarding the proposed White Sea prohibition. Lord Morley added that besides the fisheries question, broad national interests were involved, interests which must be safeguarded, otherwise they might be most seriously affected in time of war. [Last month a Bill was introduced in the Duma, forbidding foreigners to fish in the White Sea within twelve miles of any point of Archangel, or near any of the islands. The penalties fixed range from one to sis. months' imprisonment. As British trawlers take sixty thousand tons of plaice from the White Sea annually, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has insisted on the maintenance of a three-mile limit. Representations have also been made by Germany, Japan, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, who hold that the Bill raises the question of the rights of belligerents. The Russian newspaper Novoe Vremya, discussing the matter recently., argued that the natural limit everywhere on the globe was three miles, but the artificial limit was gun-fire off the coast.]