1008 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



line following the sinuosities of the shore, opposite bays 6 miles or 

 less wide, as though the lines across such bays were continuations of 

 the shore line. If this" had not been done, there would have been in 

 the case of each bay of His Majesty's dominions, a sort of a triangle, 

 not a mathematical triangle, but an irregular-shaped body of water, 

 with the apex at the point where the 3-mile line coming from oppo- 

 site directions met, and its side lines the 3-mile line following the 

 sinuosities of the shores. 



THE PRESIDENT: Please, Sir, is that the same triangle which was 

 on the drawing which was handed in by Sir Robert Finlay, or is 

 it a different triangle ? 



MR. WARREN : It is the same triangle, except that Sir Robert 

 Finlay very excessively over-stated the area of the water included in 

 the triangle, without intentionally doing so, undoubtedly. 



THE PRESIDENT: The area is of no importance is it, with regard 

 to the legal question ? For the practical effect of course it is of great 

 consequence. 



MR. WARREN: It was regarded then as of no importance, except 

 for this reason, that if the American fishermen had been left free 

 to invade these bodies of water, which, for the purpose of illustration, 

 may be called triangular bodies of water, there would have been end- 

 less complications arising; sailing-vessels would have been tacking 

 back and forth where there was not space for properly handling a 

 vessel, and without intent, the fishermen of the United States would 

 have constantly invaded the acknowledged territorial waters of Great 



Britain. 



606 THE PRESIDENT : And according to your conception and con- 

 struction, you avoid these difficulties by making this triangle 

 territorial waters? 



MR. WARREN : Exactly, Mr. President. 



THE PRESIDENT: Then I understand you well. 



MR. WARREN : The bodies of water enclosed within those lines 

 were acknowledged by the terms of this treaty to be territorial waters 

 of Great Britain in respect of the fishing rights of American fisher- 

 men. 



THE PRESIDENT: Then, are there not spaces in this triangle a 

 greater distance from the shore than 3 marine miles? 



MR. WARREN : Yes, Mr. President, unless the line across the terri- 

 torial bays had become the shore line. The treaty, therefore, made 

 that provision. Do I make myself clear in that brief answer ? 



THE PRESIDENT : I do not quite understand it. Will you be so kind 

 as to give it in a little more explicit way ? 



MR. WARREN: Your question, Mr. President, was this: Whether or 

 not the triangular shaped bodies of water about which I have been 



