ALASKAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION.
FEB FBESS ASSOCIATION, London, October 21. Lord Alveretone (Uhief Justice of England) and the three American Uomfflissioneiß have signed thd Alaskan award, bat the Hon. Sir Louis Jette and Hon. Alan Aylesworth, Canadian representatives, abstained, considering that the finding as regards the Inland entrance, Portland channel, and mountain line were not judicial. They complain that Canadian interests were sacrificed, because by awarding tie islands of Kaunaghunut and Sb felan to the United States, gave America the command of the Portland channel, Observatory Inlet, and oca:m passage to Port Semson, thus destroying the strategetic value to Canada of the "Walts and Pearse islands. They also complain that the tribunal selected a line of mountains northward of Portland channel end far back from the coast, thus allowing all the bays and inlets as means of access to the = f a, and giving the United States complete land barriers between Canada and the sea from Portland channel to Mount St. Bias.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 228, 23 October 1903, Page 3
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161ALASKAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 228, 23 October 1903, Page 3
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