SPITZBERGEN CONVENTION
4 — SIGNED BY NEW ZEALAND HIGH ' COMMISSIONER. (Rec. April 8, 10.5 p.m.) London, April 7. Sir Thomas Mackenzie is in Paris and signed the Spitsbergen Convention on behalf of New Zealand. Sir Thomas Mackenzie will also attend a meeting of the Anglo-French War Graves Commission to-morrow, and will then go to Brussels to attend an AngloBelgian Wnr Graves Conference.—Aus.N.Z. Cable A-ssn. TSpitzbergen passes to Norway under •the Convention. This group of Arctic islands has hitherto been n no man's land. Under the Brest-Litovsk Treaty Germany and Russia divided them between themselves, but Britain occupied them in 1918. Workable deposits Of coal have been discovered in recent years.]
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 166, 9 April 1920, Page 7
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109SPITZBERGEN CONVENTION Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 166, 9 April 1920, Page 7
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