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Show UNCLE SAM WINS OUT IN ALASKAN BOUNDARY COURT I London, Oct. 20, (2:20 p. m.) The en- I grossed copy of the Alaskan award was signed at 2:10 p. m. today. The Canadian commissioners. Messrs. A yles worth and Jette. declined to sign the award, but will submit their contrary opinions to the tribunal, so as to go officially on record. 'While they d clined to sign the award they signed tlu maps agreed on by the majority. 4 I The award relating to the Portland canal gives the United States two is-l;:r;ds. is-l;:r;ds. Kunnaghunut and Sitklan, commanding com-manding the entrance of the Portland channel and the ocean passage to Port Simpson and destroying the strategic value of "Wales and Pearse islands, v hich are given to Canada. The mountain line adopted as the boundary lies so far from the coast a3 to give the United States substantially all the territory in dispute. The line completely clears all the bays and in-kts in-kts and means of access to the sea, giving th United States a complete land barrier between Canada and the sea, from the Portland canal to Mount St. Klias. Around the head of th Lynn canal the line follows the watershed, water-shed, somewhat in accordance with the I provisional boundary. i! In consequence of the attitude main tained by thf Canadian commissioners, I-iOrd Chief Justice Alverstone decided ': this morning not to hold the proposed 1 public meeting of the Alaskan bound- i ary commission, but to hand its de cision to Messrs. Foster and Sifton, re-f re-f spectivcly agents of the American and I Canadian governments. t , . The Canadian commissioners not only declined to sign the award, but said they would publicly withdraw from tin ' commission. They, as well as the Canadian Can-adian connected with the case, are very I bitter. Telegrams from Premier Laur- i ier and other prominent persons in Canada show that this sentiment is j shared generally throughout the Dominion. Do-minion. ' Messrs Jett and Aylesworth, in a statement of their reasons for refusing to sign the awara, say they consider j the finding of the tribunal regarding the islands at the entrance of Portland canal and the mountain lines is not a judicial one. I Canadians Angry. ! The Canadians feel very sore over the ' outcome. They almost openly accuse Lord Alverstone of partisanship. When ' the latter presented them to King Edward Ed-ward at Buckingham palace yesterday, the king endeavored vainly to induce Messrs Jett and Aylesworth to say I they were satisfied or that they accepted ac-cepted the situation, but the two Canadians Can-adians declined to in any way express acquiescence with this view. They simply sim-ply shook hanas formally and bowed. One of the Canadian commissioners afterwards said to a representative of the Associated Press: "This award affects more the relations rela-tions between the Dominion and the , mother country than people here seem j to realize and almost marks the parting part-ing of the ways; -at least so far as leaving any such ouestion for Eng I land to decide for us." |