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pension of negotiations that would have been beneficial 

 to Newfoundland. 1 The whole question of these treaty 

 rights has been submitted for settlement to the Hague 

 Tribunal. It is earnestly hoped that a satisfactory and 

 permanent solution of the much-vexed fisheries disputes 

 may be effected. 2 



1 When, in 1908, the writer was at Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, 

 to investigate the status of the Fisheries Question in that coun- 

 try he found that the most cordial feeling exists between the fisher- 

 men of Newfoundland and the United States. The Newfoundland 

 fishermen, when asked the cause of trouble between them and the 

 American fishermen, replied, "The trouble is not with us; it is 

 between our Government and the American fishermen." 



2 The full text of the Award of the Tribunal of Arbitration, with 

 Dr. Drago's Dissent, may be found on pages 373 to 449. 



