ANTARCTIC LANDS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1930, Page 6

ANTARCTIC LANDS

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

LONDON, March 18

Regarding the United States’ atLi - tilde to Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic claims, the British Foreign Office has not received any communication from Washington, nor is there indication of any coming. The position, as far as London is concerned, is that a British note was sent to Washington several months ago outlining Australian and New Zealand claims, which was merely acknowledged without being in anywise disputed. Therefore, it is considerqd hero that the claims are recognised. The “Times” Washington correspondent says the United States’ ol>jections to the position reached at the Imperial Conference is based partly on the assertion that much of the land whereto America brings claim was originally discovered by the United States, and partly on the ground that Admiral Bvrd has discovered lands, the existence of which was unknown at the time of the British Imperial Conference. The U.S.A. State Department’s announcement is regarded rather as a reaffirmation of the Department’s attitude than as evidence of the United ‘States’ intention to press her claims immediately.