New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-12
HAGUE AWARD A VICTORY
State Department Says 1t Is a
Triumph for u. S. Contentious.
PROTECTION TO FISHERMEN
Also Opens to Americans Bays
Whose Mouths Are More than
10 Miles Between Headlands.

Washington. Sept. 1.-THE general result
Of the fisheries award by the Hague tri-
bunal rs regarded as q substantial victory
for the contentious of the United States,
according to an unofficial tentative anaiE-
sis of the decision given out by the Depart
ment Of State. based upon cable sum
mary from its representative.
AS to Question /, wherein the British
claim of inherent sovereign power to make
the fisheries regulations without TINS gov
ernment'S consent was sustained. the de-
partment says that while the United States
thus lost its extreme contention. that the
1913 treaty established ali international ser
vitude exempting American fishermen alb
solutely from British fishing regulations,
the decision in practical effect appears to
secure the same measure OF protection
against unfair legislation which this con-
tention designed 10 secure.
Thus" says the department. 1.-The Brit
ish sovereign rights over fishing in British
waters are affirmed but the exercise of
such rights is effectively limited for the
protection of American fishermen
Regarding the decision on Question 5.
defining bays the department says: 1T
cannot be regarded as laying down any
general rule regarding the determination
of the extent of bays in other waters thap
the bays on the nOn-treaty coasts or re
garding the extent of bays in these waters
except as to the fishing rights renowned
by the United States" The department
says that on this point the tribunal gave
a compromise decision. which closes to
American fishermen on non-treaty coasts
all bays ten miles or less between head
lands and opens to them all bays whose
mouths are more than ten miles between
headlands.
The State Department quotes extensively
from the discussion of the threemiie
marine limit The tribunal recommends
that the two governments accept these
rules in determining the limits of bays:
First-In every bay not hereinafter pro-
vided for the limits of exclusion shall be
line across the bay in the part nearest the
entrance at the first point where the width
does not exceed ten miles.
Second-In certain bays. named below,
where the Contiguration of the coast and
the local climatic conditions such that
foreign fishermen. when within the geo
bona fide believe themselves In the high
seas. the limits of exclusion shall be drawn
in accordance with specifications given,
such limits being those at and within which
the fishermen might reasonably be eX-
pected to recognize the bay under average
conditions
the light at Birch Point, on MiScou Island,
TO Macuereau Point Light: for the Bay or
Miramichi. the limit from the light at
Point F,scuminac to the light on the east
ern point of Tabisntac Gully; for Egmont
Bay, Prince Edward Island. tho line from
the light at Cape Egmont TO the light at
West Point and off st. AIMS Bay. in the
Province of Nova Scotia, the line from the
light at Point Anconi to the nearest point
of the opposite shore of the mainland: for
Fortune Bay in Newfoundland the line
southeastern end of Brunet Island. thence
10 Fortune Head For or near the follow
ing bays the limits of exclusion shall he
three marine miles seaNard from the toi-
lowing lines. namely:
For OF near harrington Bay, in Nova
Scotia, the line from the light on Stoddart
Island to the light on the south point or
Cape Sable. thence to the light at Baccaro
Point: at Cheda bucto and ST. Peters Bay.
the line from Cranberry Island Light to
Green Point, TO Scatarie Island. TO the
Placentia Bay. in Newfoundland, the line
from Latino Point the eastern main.
land shore. to the most southeriy point OF
Red Island, thence by the most southerly
point of Mera Sheen Island to the main
land. Long Island and Dryer Island, on
St Mary's Bay, in Nova Scotia, shall Tor
the purpose of delimitation be taken as
the coasts of such bays. 1t is understood
that nothing in these rules refers either to
the Bay of Fundy. considered as a whole
apart from its bays and creeks. or as TO
the Innocent Passage through the Gut of
Canso, which were excluded by the agree
ment made by exchange of notes between
Mr.. Bacon and Mr.. Bryce. dated February
81 1903 and March 4, 1909. or to Conception
Bay, which was provided for by the deci-
sion Of the Priv Council in the case OF
the Direct United States Gable Company
against the Anglo-American Telegram
Company, in which decision the Oniteo
States has acuuipSCed.