The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-04
TRIBUNAL AWARDS.
England Gets valu-
able Forests for
It's Share.
VENEzUELANS ARE SATISFIED.
Work of the Commission
Generally Satisfactory
to Members.
VENEzUELANS ARE SATISFIED.

Paris, Oct. 3.-During the assembling
today of the Anglo Venezuelan bound
airy arbitration commission, it appears
that Great Britain loses some of her
claims in the interior and ON the coast
and that her frontier will start at the
Waini river. The award was unani-
nous. 1t is considered in the nature OF
compromise, rather than as favor
ing Venezuela.
The award of the tribunal, briefly
summarized. means that of the 100000
square miles claimed by Venezuela, the
latter obtains only 100, 900, formed part
ly of marsh land near the river Barima
and q portion in the interior; while
Great Britain retains all the forest
country.
M. De Martens was accompanied by
the other four members of the tribunal
After they had taken their seats in the
presence of the counsel for the two par
ties, Sir Edmund ]. Monson, British
ambassador to France, the entire stat
of the British embassy and large con
course of people, M. De Martens rose
and in his opening sentences said the
court was going to read the award
which had been unanimously arrived at
in English and French.
Mr.. D'Oyly Carter, secretary to Baror
Russell of Killowen, one of the mem
bers Of the tribunal, read the English
text, and M. De Martens read the
French After the reading, the presi-
dent of the tribunal, speaking in Eng
lish, said that he was glad to an,
nounce that after three months hare
work, the court had unanimously de-
cided upon the award which had JUS
been read.
Benjamin Harrison, the principa
counsel for Venezuela, then made few
remarks which were responded to By
Sir Richard Webster, who thanked thu
French government for its hospitality
and said that England and Venezuela
would work side by side in harmony
When asked his opinion regarding thu
award, Sir Richard Webster said HI
was satisfied. Harrison, replying
to the same question, said: 1t Nigh
be worse"
subsequently, Mr. Harrison and M
Mallet- Provost who were interviewed
jointly, pointed out that Great Brit
ain, up to the time of the intervention
of the United States, distinctly re-
fused to arbitrate any portion of the
territ Try east of the Schomburg line
alleging that its title was unassailable
This territory included Atacuri river
and Point Barima. which is of the
greatest value commercially.
"The award" continued the counse
for Venezuela gives Point Barima- with
strip of land fifty miles long, tc
Venezuela, which thereby retains entire
control of the Orinoco. Three thousand
square miles in the interior is also
awarded to Venezuela Thus, by a de-
cision. in which the British arbitrators
concurred, the position taken ur
by Great Britain in 1895 is shown to be
unfounded.
"This, however, in no wise explains
the full extent of Venezuela's VIC
tory. Great Britain had claimed 30,
600 square miles of territory west OF
Schomburgk line, and this she was dis
posed to arbitrate in 1880. Every foo
of that section is now awarded to Ven
ezuela."
The counsel for Venezuela went or
to say that, SO long as arbitration was
conducted on such plans it could moi
be successful. Venezuela had gained
much, but was entitled to much more
and, in the judgment of the joint coun-
sci for Venezuela, if the arbitrators
were unanimous it must be because the
failure to agree would have confirmed
Great Britain in the possession of ever
more territory.
One OF the counsel for Great Britain
made the following statement to tn,
| Associated Press representative:
THE award confirms the judgment o.
| Sir Robert Schomburgk, whose line i
| follows except in a few places. Grea
| Britain acquires the whole of the rive
| Cuyani, including a site which was (
fort, at the junction of the Curumu ant
| Guyana The marshy Barima diStric
has been awarded to Venezuela, pos
sibIy on the principle of national Sc
curity, but with the condition that tht
| Orinoco shall be free waterway to al
nations This piece of land covers
about 80 square n lies. 1t has been Of
| fered with much more land by every
| British foreign minister since the tint
| Of Lord Aberdeen.
"Great Britain has substantiated al.
most all her extreme claim. All the
valuable plantations and gold fields are
now indisputablv settled within Brit
ish territory"
M De Martens was then interviewed
by the Associated Press representative
The president Of the tribunal repeated
what he had read in his address to The
court adding:
II am of the opinion that this tribunal
of arbitration is of exceptional i'm
portance inasmuch as 1t is the first
tribunal after the peace conference al
The Hague II is also important be-
cause it is the first tribunal of the kind
in (which the rules of procedure have
been laid down and communicated to
counsel as obligatory. Rules which
rave been adhered to throughout.
I hese rules are the same as were pro-
posed by the Russian government for
The conference at The Hague and APP
proved in July. AS they had been laid
down by the arbitration tribunal in
January, they were applied long before
the conference at The Hague took them
into consideration.