5 MARCH 1927, Page 2

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Tuesday announced

its considered opinion on the dispute between Canada and Newfoundland as to the possession of the doubtful Labrador Peninsula. The,dispute turned on the use of the word " coast " in 1763. Canada lull that " coast " applied only to a fringe of. territory one mile deep. The Judicial Committee, however, verY reasonably, interpreted the _ Proclamation of 1763 i" which the word occurred in the light of the Comarksiou granted to the Governor of Newfoundland, and sho".61 that the instruction to him to establish the appan't'" of Government on the " coast" implied the pot-es'inli of the interior.