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Show RESISTING 'j fUfllTIPU Rights to Palmyra Island Will Be Defended by United States Washington, Jan. 30. There Is every ev-ery Indication that tho American stato department will resist any attempt of a IJrltlsh syndicate, or of tho British government, to assert sovereignty oor the Palmyra island In tho Pacific Pa-cific ocean. The United States and Great Brltam may havo to submit to International arbitration the question of sovereignty. Governor Frear of Ha-' wall today notified tho state department depart-ment that tho island long bad been In tho possession of Judgo Honry E. Cooper of tho Hawaiian supremo court who was much disturbed over the report re-port that Groat Britain "was about to claim title. ) Tho department has undertaken an Investigation which thus far has disclosed dis-closed that while existing charts show the Island to bo British by Urtue of its annexation in 1SS9 by Captain Nichols oT tlv British gunboat Cormorant, Cor-morant, tlu Island hnd previously been annexed to the Hawaiian kingdom In 1S32 and tho commission appointed by President McKinley in 1S9S to take over tho Hawaiian islands in that year annexed to the Unltod State", speclficlcally Included Palmyra island isl-and aB part of Hawaii. no |