Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-28 | Page 1 | Treaty Now Endangered

oo Russia and Japan at Outs Over Capture of Japanese hhip .Washington, July 2S. The issue be--tween Japanand-Russia, overihe seizure seiz-ure of a Japanese fishing and sealing vessel by the Russian authorities on tho Siberian coast, may. It Is feared. enJanger consummation of the recently recent-ly negotiated seal treaty The Japanese Jap-anese assertion is that the vessel was seized far beyond the marine league distance from the Russian shore line, which marks territorial Jurisdiction. It is understood here that Russinn government some months ago sought to extend its territorial rights to a distance of thirty miles from the shore line. The Japanese government refuses to recognize this extension. So far no official notice of this Russian Rus-sian c'aim to -jurisdiction ovor the high seas has been received In Washington Wash-ington and consequently the state department de-partment officials arc unwilling to Indicate In-dicate what action they would take in the matter It Is recalled here, however, that the American claim to jurisdiction over Bering sea was rejected by the Paris arbitration commission. Included in the American case was a ukase bv the Russian emperor, claiming jurisdiction jurisdic-tion for one hundred miles off the Alaskan coast which also fell with the broader American claim. As this international arbitration apparently settled affirmatively and for all time the binding foico of the old rule, that no nation can asseit its exclusive control con-trol to the sea more than one marine league bevond the shore line, the basis of the recent Russian decree cannot be conjectured.