Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-30 | Page 15 | U. S. and Britain to Sign Pact on Pacific Islands

n g. g A TO 10 SIGN PACT ACI ON PA Sov Sovereignty Over Over- Insular Poss Possessions s i ions ns to Be BeS S Set Settled t tied by Tr Treaty aty WASHINGTON July 30 O AP AP- AP The last Iut outstanding que question of sovereignty over r insular in i the Pacific is exp expected to be settled let let- set set- tied this week with th the of a treaty between the United States and d Great Britain to to determine the Neo go sovereignty of ol the Turtle Islands Islands and establish tho thor southern boundary been concluded concluded con con- of ot the Philippines have fn In Ina n nn here and are re incorporated n a treaty being drafted by bythe the stated state d department p An arrangement arrange arrange- meat ment acknowledging American sovereignty SOy sov In the Turtle Islands and assigning administration to io the British is Is Is' expected d to tobe be ov ev evolved have been going The ne negotiations on for only a n. few days Ol OLD OED AG MEN Turtle group Includes Includes' sov n nh Tho h islands lands of minute size with population of r 29 near the coast const of ol British Borneo Since 1885 the Islands h have ve b been en administered by under the tUb British government provisions provisIon of a Spa British protocol After the Philippine Philip Philip- Philippine pine was as ceded to the In In- th United Stales b United tes' tes into a pr provisional provi I Britain Brit it agreement with Great nl am ain i whereby the administration str Uon was to continue hi ITt British hands al although al- al fully full was though tho the United States recognized as having complete sov soy The The- question was aS dealt with b by bya commission by the tho two a a. governments The British delegate dele dele- the British ambassador gate was as assisted by F. F W. W Fraser a h. h expert on far east r affairs and P T. PA A. Shone first em ern secretary of orthe the British The chief American delegate was I Major General Frank McIntyre who wh has been prominent in AmerIcan In insular in- in Spanish Spanish- BUlar sular affairs since the tle American n wor and Is an an n. n expert on q General McIntyre Mc Mc- K IZ Intyre w was assisted by John Caldwell of the tile tar far division of C th the tha state te department nt and Jacob A A. A of ot the solicitors solicitor's office of ot the department t. t IMPORTANT SITE SiE While the Islands are email emall at least o one q of ot them la ls the Important for tot site o of a an Imp Important tho the British of ot the City of capital and md nd most important British Borneo Borne Theother other islands are re ann Bc L Greater B in Little flak Bak- and and and and arid all aU of them thep are are e easy sv sailing distance dis- dis 1 tance of the Borneo shore The Islands originally under British ju jurisdiction according to to the terms terms 0 of of- the trent treaty of- of Paris of-Paris Paris when h n Spain ra gave ve up up th the Philippines esto to the fhe United States statu It Iwas found However that the line of ot demarcation for forthe r. r tJ the e Spanish Spanish- British boundary in tho the treaty did not include several other and an l J to to the thc orl original treaty and including th the group p by DY Spain and th United States Jn In