THE WHITE SEA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 7

THE WHITE SEA.

A RECENT CONTROVERSY. QUESTION OF LIMIT TO BE OBSERVED. RUSSIA AGREEABLE TO ARBI-, TRATION. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright* (Received February 27, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 26th February. With respect to the controversy tha* followed the introduction in the Rue* sian Duma of a Bill forbidding foreigh\ers to fish in the White Sea within: twelve miles of any point of Archangel, or near any of the islands, it is stated) here that Russia is willing to submit to an international conference the question of the limit to be observed with regai'4' to territorial waters. [As British trawlers take sixty thousand tons of plaice from tho 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 mad© by, 'Germany, Japan, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, who hold that the Bill raises tho question of the rights of belligerent*. Earlier this month, Lord Morley, Lord President of the Council, •m reply to" a question by Lord Nunburn. holme in the House of Lordß, said the British Government was resolved nob to yield to Russia regarding the propos--ed White Sea prohibition. Lord Morley added that besides the fisheries question, broad national interests were in* volved, interests which must be safeguarded, otherwise they might. be moatl seriously; affected in time or war.]