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Show Nlato Itlghtaln Newfoundland. NowfoundlAud has been n crooked stlek In Ilritlsh politics now for nearly 500 years. A treaty which an) body who coal 1 see an Inch be) ond his nose would expect to make trouble is tho came of the pnarnt dlQlculty. At the jieace of Utrecht, In 1,13, Ncwfonu Hnnd was finally ceded by the French to Great Erltaln, with the condition thit tho French should hara tho privilege of ratihing anl drying full on the coast Tho shore on which they vera allowed this right was define 1 In 1733 to Ira the cimat from Cupo Uonivlsti northward aroiiud the Island as fir as Point Itlchu Tho toplo of Newfoundland, as time went on, U-c.una more nn 1 more Irritated Irri-tated that citizens of n fori Ict power should land on their shore nnd catch and carry away their lobsters under their wry eyes. These lobsters and t hose fish, they declared, Wlougcd tn them, nnd no Trench should halo them. Tho French, on the other hand. Insisted on their rights. Thero has been constant friction. At length the Newfoundland people claim that the French nro Infringing on their rights, and they demand that the status shall lo changed. At tho same time they cast longing eics toward tho United btates of America, and signify In all ways consistent with thelriiosltlon aa a dej ndoncy of Great Ilritalnthat they italro closer relations with tu. ThoBallsbury government has undertaken under-taken to drlte the Newfoundland of the pmnt Into observing tho treaty made betw. een Franco and the mother couutry 178 3 cars ago, Tho means adopted eo farltthosocaHed Nonfoundland coercion coer-cion bill in parliament, w hose constdcra Hon has caused such bitter and rebellious feeling in the island. Tho Dritlah government gov-ernment hopes officially that Frame may be Induce.! to arbitrate the fisheries question and that thus someamlcable understanding, un-derstanding, or even modification of the treaty may be reached Hut theao things take time, and Newfoundland is In A steadily increasing state of Irritation, Thesuahshe received from the home government hut winter lu the attemit to arrange reciprocal tralo nnl coin-inerco coin-inerco bet, een the Island and the United btates Is not yet forgotten, and an act of parliament to force her into Allowing tho French fishermen on her shorn will not tend to sootho her feelings. |