PAYMENT TO NORWAY
FOR USE OF SHIPS DURING , WAR. AMERICA ACCEPTS AWARD. Anatrali&n and N.Z. Cable Association(Received January 3, 8.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 2. President Harding • has let it he known that the United States will pay the twelve million dollars which The Hague Arbitration Court awarded Norway for the use of ships during the war. The court’s announcement_ of the siderablo unpleasantness, owing to the American arbiters’ protests that the award was a manifest departure from the terms pf the submission. A delipate situation arose between Norway and the, United States, with other foreign Powers as interested onlookers. ' President Harding feels that the United States cannot afford to renounce by action its own advice to other Powers to settle their difficulties by arbitration, and will, therefore, the' correspondent says, take its medicine like if good fellow.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11409, 4 January 1923, Page 5
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137PAYMENT TO NORWAY New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11409, 4 January 1923, Page 5
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