The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-17
WE SEEM TO HxTS, WOW,
According 20 Comments ON the Arbitration
In Ottawa, London, and Paris.


OTTAWA. Aug. lev. @. Parmelos, Deputy
Minister OF Trade and Commerce. who had
| much to do with the Behring Sea question
| since the FIRST seizures. thinks that the close
| season In May, June. and July will be serious
| blow to British Columbia sealers inasmuch as
those are the months In which the seals con-
ereRate on the Prlbylov Islands. BY the time
they are ready to depart they are in q very poor
condition as compared with that when they
arrive on the islands. Moreover. as tho seals
are concentrated at those islands. hunters
have n better opportunity to capture them
than ON leaving. and when tho seals get out
side the sixty-mlo zone they will be pretty
widely scattered.
Tho decision TO maintain close season looks
ns II the monopoly In sealing has been given
to tho United States. Outside OF Behring Sea.
| Canadians will stand as good chance az they
over did
The Citizen. Government organ. says: while
the arbltrators have solemnly recorded their
judgment that the American contentious were
untenable. they have nevertheless adopted
industry which practically hands 1t over to
the Americans. 1t may possibly be too early
sariIy imperfect Information conveyed by
cable. but Il appears at present rs though the
over the kernel / Tn Gncic sam f''" -"
VICTORIA ,. c.. Aug. lG-Iocnl sealers
Sea artitrators as favorable to securing com:
pensation for losses caused by the Americans
Say say the regnlati9ns will he DISASTROUS in stop.
LONDON. Aug i0-The 81 .Jamess Gazette
Tor Great Britain or for international arbitrn;;
ton The American people. 1t says: would
as the claim that BehTin rs Sea ~ was mars
ctdIs,tri., All that the award has DONE. the
sbbsns 1dd to give hs c tEa VOLTA thS
probably have been better framed by com
mission Of British. Canadian. and American
The Globe says: Tho United States gets the
pest o. TIE q bnsiEess on the whole Therefore
hard to say what more the arbitrators could
article On the award Of the rs BehrlnF Sea TIT
buna! Of Arbitration says 1t gives the advnn-
tage to England on legal grounds while nc, &C,
erly and wisely terminated the differences. and
renuered the solution easily acceptable by
The Journal des Ds5a,s says that the result
OF the aroltrntion afroris the singular specta-
furnishing the man who. presided over the
the ,BchrinG Sea tribunal does n Of p ease many
leaves the Behrine Sea Sea 9 open to ' Hawaiian
japanese. or Russ Ian sealers. all Of whom will
10 ON inc ground next season unless sOmo
special arrangement Is made barring them
out. Under the. terms Of the decision the
United States is declared to have no propre-
tar. right in seals beyond the thTee-mlle
tain bI,,,,, months is prohibited only to
doubtless thought that no other ma
lions were interested. but they were
ignorant OF the devices employed by seaers
and whaers on this coast Of sailing under
foreign ,colors. Fully one:half Of the British
Co oI,in biz is sealing fleet which sailed from the
They chose to enter their vessels under the
British fling. They said that British poachers
than Americans and they also counted
seized seized Nothing is easier than to get q
this port; The steamer Alexander. which
was falsely reported to have fred on the Mo.
Of the Victoria sealing fleet spends the winter
IN Japanese waters. These vessels may secure
Japanese registry and then hunt seals any
where In the Behring Sea outside Of the three
mile limit. 1t is not to be supposed that this
large fleet OF poachcrs will promptly abandon
a lucrative business. They will appear next
year under various foreign flags and neither
Great Britain nor the United States can pre-
vent them from taking seals.