Show A WRANGLE ABOUT FISH phai PERHAPS s it is in not generally known that a lobster Is ie the innocent cause of much of the triangular trouble relating to england prance france and newfoundland such is the case cam the lobster is the cause and the great question whether this animal to is a flah fish or not will have to be decided before the issue can be settled there was waa a time when all the vast regions now known as british america and newfoundland were posses blona alone of france then there came a time when they passed over to england but though becoming british posses possessions sious france by the treaties of utrecht and versailles Ver retained certain flahery fishery privileges in newfoundland among these were right to hunt for and to eure cure fish on the shores between cape st john and cape aly the treaties gave french fishermen shermen fl the right to erect stages made of boards and huts neo necessary essary and usual for drying flab fish s when these words were written lobster canning was not an ind industry astry recently the french added this industry to their works in newfoundland the Britis hers objected and claimed that lobster is not fish the french claim that it is ind and that under treaty rights they are fled bed in canning lobster under the title fish as stated in the treaty This tion will be dealt with by three experts in international law their names are marten rivers and orau gran A conference will be held bold at brussels and the whole matter discussed there seems to be no way for england to got get out except by buying the french interests in gedges s bay or by defending and protecting them according to treaty stipulations this latter the new found landers do not want they demand that the french be rooted out absolutely the supreme court of newfoundland has baa decided that there is no legi lation in existence under which england can enforce treaty rights in that colony that court further decided that the queens queen Is prerogative is not sufficient to compel submission to treaty provisions it requires an act of state to go as far as this and that means an act of parliament with all that it embodies this thia act both houses in london are trying to pan lord knutsford in the lords and james jamee ferguson in the commons are working for the passage of a bill that will empower the kneen to order the navy to enforce french rights in newfoundland the newfoundland parliament has refused to enter into any legislation which would recognize french claims this is rather embarrassing for england englan by according treaty rights to france england drives her own subjects in newfoundland into revolt if the bill should pow pass in the british parliament the conservative ministry will suffer a defeat and there is a possibility lity of a general election the newfoundlanders Newfound landers are clamoring for annexation with the united states but should they effect this it would not destroy french rights the claim would only be transferred from john bull to uncle sam and the latter would have a lobster on his hands bands in addition to the seal and codfish the whole trouble can be summed up ina in a few words by their treaty rights the french have a monopoly of the fishing in georges bay recently they went into lobster canning and it has become a vast industry the newfoundlanders Newfound landers also went into it in what to is regarded as french territory for fishing purposes oes the factory of baird one of the Britis hers was closed by the queens s commander of the navy in those waters the supreme court of newfoundland has decided that the queens order was illegal and beyond her prerogative this is what perplexes the conservative government and in flames the newfoundlanders Newfound landers |