TERRITORIAL WATERS.
METHODS OF MEASUREMENT. In justice to the Spanish rebels one must remember (the Manchester Guardian says) that their claim to stop foreign merchant ships six miles from the coast is not a new or opportunist definition of territorial waters. The Spaniards have always claimed six miles as the limit. Nor are they alone among nations in confusing the diflicult subject of territorial waters with their own special definitions. International conferences have shown that it is almost impossible to reach a common definition. Various countries make different claims, varying from 12 miles downward. Nor do they agree on the manner in which the distance should be measured. The Norwegians, for instance, with their deeply-indented coastline, insist that all Indentations shall be ignored when the measurement is taken. Some nations claim that the Inner limit of their territorial waters shall be the most seaward point of any island which lies off their coasts. In this confusion of rival claims Great Britain, rather characteristically, refuses to concede any claim larger than her own, which is to territorial waters measuring three miles from the coast. Ignoring only the smallest Indentations. She has, however, compromised on occasions. When, for Instance, friction arose over American treatment of British ships smuggling liquor into the United States both nations agreed on three miles as the normal and permanent limit, but one hour’s steaming as the limit where ships carrying liquor were concerned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 3
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236TERRITORIAL WATERS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 3
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