TERRITORIAL LIMIT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 5

TERRITORIAL LIMIT

THREE MILES OR TWELVE?

AMERICA'S LIQUOE BARRIER.

(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION".—COPTRIGHT.)

(PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES.)

(Received 30th October, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 29th October. The discrepancy • between the announcement" in America- that Britain is likely to agree to the twelve-mile limit of territorial waters, and a semi-official denial issued in London, seem to be explained by an authoritative American statement published in "The Times," as follows: "As Lord Curzon previously declared that there was no chance of Britain agreeing in any circumstances whatever to a twelve-mile limit, the British denial is natural enough; (but what the American reports attributed to Britain was their willingness to acceptthe twelve-mile limit in principle. America is not'asking Britain to accept it in principle, but as a special privilege to cope with the/liquor smugglers alone." The statement adds : "If such an agreement is reached, there is little doubt that the American Senate will permit British vessels (?to carry liquor). The writer considers that Britain ought to accept the bargain on the lines of Mr Hughes's proposal. The three miles principle could be specially safeguarded by its definite insertion in the preamble to the Anglo-American Treaty; which Britain desires."