NEWS OF THE WEEK
• ON Wednesday the tribunal at the Hague which has sat since June 2nd issued its award on the North Atlantic Coast fisheries dispute. On two points the award is in favour of Great Britain, and on five points in favour of the United States. But by far the most important British contentions were contained in the two claims to which the Court has acceded. Thus there is good reason for Great Britain to be well pleased with the result. The tribunal found that Great Britain enjoys undivided sovereignty within her own waters, and is therefore free to make in those waters what laws she pleases for the control of the_ fisheries. It further found that the British definition of the term "bays " was justifiable, and that the narrower American definition was unjustifiable. There are several " recommendations " which attempt to direct the manner in which the rights thus assigned to Great Britain shall be exercised. We have written of the whole subject elsewhere, and will only say here that a genuine service has been done to the cause of arbitration within its proper province, and that Englishmen acknowledge gratefully the ability and labour which the distinguished members of the tribunal have expended on their task.
