LABRADOR COAST
EJNAL STAGE (>F DISPUTE
LONDON, Oct, 22,
The final stage of the great fight which began 20 years' ago between Canada ami Newfoundland -for possession of 100,000 square miles of Labrador, was entered upon to-day, when the two. Dominions submitted 'their rapes for judgment to the Privy Council. The dispute has already cost. £200,000. and the present proceedings five expected to last i> mouthThe .case mainly turns on the meaning of the word "coast," which Newfoundland says may include ferritpry, m)W Canada maintains >'' nlllst weans P nl >* J;>nd riqqv tjn> coastline. The actual ep'astlina is not/ in dispute. It belongs to '■Newfoundland. The Times 'says the ease is one of the greatest yet before the Privy Council.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 12
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