NORTH ATLANTIC FISHERIES DISPUTE 19 



THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL. 



The Tribunal of Arbitration was convened at The Hague, June 1, 

 1910, and was constituted as follows: 



Personnel of Mr. H. Lammascii, Doctor of Law, Professor of the 



the Tribunal University of Vienna, Aulic Councillor, Member of the 

 Upper House of the Austrian Parliament ; His Excellency Jonkheer A. 

 F. De Savornin Lohman, Doctor of Law, Minister of State, former 

 Minister of the Interior, Member of the Second Chamber of the Nether- 

 lands; the Honourable George Gray, Doctor of Laws, Judge of the 

 United States Circuit of Appeals, former United States Senator; the 

 Right Honourable Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, Member of the Privy 

 Council, Doctor of Laws, Chief Justice of Canada; the Honourable Luis 

 Maria Drago, Doctor of Law, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the 

 Argentine Republic, Member of the Law Academy of Buenos Aires; 



For Great Britain : 



Mr, (now Sir) Allen B. Aylesworth, K,C,, agent; Sir William Snow- 

 den Robson, K.C, M,P., Sir Robert Finlay, K.C., M.P., Sir Edward P. 

 Morris, K.C, Mr. Donald Morrison, K.C, Sir James S. Winter, K.C, Mr. 

 John S. Ewart, K.C, Mr. George F. Shepley, K.C, Sir H. Erie Richards, 

 K.C, Mr. A, F, Peterson, K,C, Mr, W, N. Tilley, Mr. Raymond Asquith, 

 Mr. Geoffrey Lawrence, Mr. Hamar Greenwood ; Messrs. Blake and Red- 

 den, solicitors; Mr. H. E. Dale, of the Colonial Office; Mr. John D. 

 Clarke, Secretary of the Agency. 



For the United States : 



Mr. Chandler P. Anderson, agent; Senator Elihia Root, Senator 

 George Turner, Mr. Samuel J. Elder, Mr. Charles B. Warren, Dr. James 

 Brown Scott, Mr. Robert Lansing, and Mr. Otis Thomas Cartwright, 

 Secretary of the Agency. 



Secretaries of the Tribunal : 



Baron Michiels van Verduynen, Secretary-General ; Jonkheer Roell, 

 Mr. Charles D. White, and Mr. George Young. 



At the first sitting of the tribunal, Prof. Lammasch delivered the 

 inaugural speech. He said: "Perhaps no question of such gravity and 

 involving sxich complications had ever been submitted to arbitration. 

 .... By submitting this century-old conflict to the Court, America and 

 Great Britairi have expressed their complete confidence in this pacific 

 method of settling international conflicts, have given an example to the 

 whole community of nations, and have won for themselves fresh credit 

 in the cause of international justice and peace, for which those Powers 

 have, perhaps, done more than the other nations, especially during the 

 reign of the great monarch whose premature and sudden death has so 



