SAFETY ZONE PROPOSAL
COASTS OF AMERICA ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC (Reed. Sept. 29, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28
A message from Panama City states it is revealed that the safety zone for merchant Shipping as proposed to the Pan-American. Conference by the United States assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, extends over 700 miles from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas, including the Briti'sh-owned Falkland Islands, which Argentina also claims. The line of the proposed zone would start off at PaSsamaquoddy Bay southward along the sixtieth • degree of longitude to a point off southern Florida, thence south-east to the twenty-fourth degree of longitude off St Paul Isle, southward along the twenty-fourth degree of longitude to Trinidad Island, south-westerly to a point off Cape Horn, thence following 58 degrees south latitude to 80 degrees west longitude, taking in all Tierra Del Fuego, northwest to the ninetyseventh degree of longitude at the Equator, including Galapagos, northwesterly to longitude 120 and at: north latitude 15, along 136 longitude to a point of! the American-Canadian 'border.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 7
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174SAFETY ZONE PROPOSAL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 7
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