ALASKAN BOUNDARY QUESTION.
THE SURVEY COMPLETED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, April 23. The British Ambassador at Washington (Sir Mortimer Durand) and the United States Secretary of State (Mr. Elihu Root) have signed a treaty fixing the unloeaied portion of the Alaskan-Canadian boundary. . — j The question in dispute as to Alaska affected 300 miles of coastline and Canada's right to porta. It was whether the boundary line according to the liusso-British treaty of 1825 should follow the windings of the ooast at a distance of 10 miles or be 10 miles from the innermost headland. An Arbitration Commission in 1903 decided that the RusiO-British treaty intended to give Russia a continuous strip of coast separating British possessions from waters of the inlets between the 156 th and' 141 st meridians. The award gave the United States not more than half tho territory claimed, and while accepted in that country was bitterly denounced. The survey of the new boundary has now
been completed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13160, 25 April 1906, Page 5
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