| Show CANADAS CLAIMS ARE ALMOST UNLIMITED but united states representatives will insist on possession of the shores and inlets of alaska london L sept 23 attorney general chali inlay concluded his argument in behalf bof canada at thia mornings session of ho alaska boundary commission he f received the thanks of chief justice aej the congratulations of root arid lodge on hia lucid 1 explanation of ao technical aej compre a subject the attorney general made it clear that canada wants about everything and the american council informs the correspondent that every effort will be made by them to convince the tribunal that the treaty contemplated a barrier the dominion and the ocean and that the question of territory is not important provided the shores and inlets remain in the possession of the states david T watson of pittsburg of for the american side opened for the anit states dc scrib ng tha purchase of alaska and stating that die united states published in he map aued by russia in one year after the treaty with grit brit lin and that no protest was mad against the boundary therein fixed eith er by great britain or by canada mr watcyn pointed out that it was three years after gold was discovered in the yukon that great britain made her first formal notification that she would question the title of the united states to the beada of inlets the correspondence prior therefore referred to the actual demarcation line on the ground but no question as to the accuracy of the boundary claimed by the united states as universally shown on the maps bad ever previously been formally raised A B bolesworth Byl esworth of canadian counsel remarked that in canada had no concern in the question and had no right to interfere with an objection aa her territory was not extended to the pacific untie 1871 mr watson continuing quoted tha reports of the surveyor general of canada in 1874 agreeing that the line was across certain rivers which were emptying at the head of the lynn canal and argued that canada thereby acknowledged the united states claim to the heads of inlets |
