NATIONAL ARBITRATION
BRITISH AND AMERICAN CLAIMS. A LONG-STANDING DISPUTE. Proa* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 15. The Anglo-American Pecuniary Claims Commission of Arbitration began a series of sittings in London to-day before M. Fromageot, a French jurist, who is acting as umpire, Mr W. Olds and Mr A. Mit-chell-Innes being the American and British arbitrators respectively. The in bunal was appointed in 1910 to find a judicial settlement of claims by British and American citizens.
Mr Ronald M’Neill (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), in welcoming the Commission on behalf of the British Government, said that it furnished an exampfe of the only civilised method ot settling disputes between two nations. The Commission will hear 10 claims', four being by Americans, who maintain that they were unjustly deprived of land in Fiji when Britain annexed the islands in 1874, and two by British cable companies, whose cables were cut by the American navy during the opanish-Ameri-can War. —A. and h.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18995, 17 October 1923, Page 7
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