ORAL ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE PERMANENT COURT 

 OF ARBITRATION. 



543 EIGHTEENTH DAY : MONDAY, JULY 4, 1910. 



The Tribunal met at 10 o'clock a. m. 



THE PRESIDENT: May I ask the Secretary-General to read a com- 

 munication : 



BARON MICHIELS VAN VERDUYNEN: The two counsel who have 

 opened the case for both parties, having discussed all the questions, 

 and some of them in all their details, the Court expresses the opinion 

 that the four counsel who are next to follow might content them- 

 selves with the discussion of those topics which have not so far been 

 treated ex professo, and might succeed in doing so by taking to- 

 gether not more than two weeks, that is to say, four days for each 

 party. 



For the purpose of enlarging the time at the disposal of these 

 counsel, the Court is willing, if wanted, to sit in the next two weeks 

 in the afternon till 5 o'clock. 



Of course, it is expected that the counsel who close for the respec- 

 tive parties will cover all the questions at issue without any limitation 

 as to time. 



THE PRESIDENT: Now, Sir James Winter, will you address the 

 Court? 



ARGUMENT OF THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES S. WINTER, K. C., 

 ON BEHALF OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



SIR JAMES WINTER: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Arbitra- 

 tion, I can assure you, in appearing to-day on behalf of Great 

 Britain, as one of the counsel in this case, I am fully sensible of the 

 importance of the trust which has been committed to me, in associa- 

 tion with others, and of the gravity of the duty which I am called 

 upon to perform. I am also deeply conscious of the inadequacy of 

 the faculties and powers which I possess to deal efficiently with a 

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