CANTON ISLAND
Does it Belong %o Britain or America? s (Received 15, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 34. In the House of Commons, the Secretary of Stat© for Oolonies, Mr W. Qrmsby-Gore informed Mr Arthur Henderson that when the New Zealand solar eclipse party arrived at Canton
/ Island it found the United Statea ten-> der Avocet nchored there. The eaptain of the Avocet intimated that the United States did not admit ^rxtish sovereignty over the island. The posi-t tions thus disclosed was now Jwing eonsidered.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 152, 15 July 1937, Page 5
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