REQUISITIONING OF SHIPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18752, 4 January 1923, Page 5

REQUISITIONING OF SHIPS

NORWAY’S CLAIM. AMERICA TO DAY INDEMNITY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, January 2. (Received Jan. 3, at 8.15 p.m.) President Harding has let it be known that the United States will pay 12,000,000 dollars which The Hague Arbitration Court awarded Norway for the use of ships during the war. The court’s announcement of its decision caused considerable unpleasantness, due to the American arbiters’ protests that the award was a manifest departure from the terms under which the dispute was submitted. A delicate 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 bv its action its own advice to the other Powers to settle their difficulties by arbitration, and will therefore, a correspondent says, “take her medicine like a good fellow.”— A. and N.Z. Cable. . [The Court of Arbitration awarded Norway an indemnity of about 12,000.000 dollars in respect to the requisitioning of Norwegian ships by the American Government in war-time. Norway claimed 13,000,000 dollars, and the United States offered to pay about 2,500,000 dollars. The representative of the United States protested against the decision, and on behalf of his Government reserved nil rights in respect of any infraction of the conditions under which the dispute was submitted to the court and vital errors which would invalidate the award.]