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of the Convention of April 8th, assures to the proprietors of these establishments as 

 well as to the sailors employed by them an indemnity the amount of which is to be 

 determined by a commission of officers from the French and English navy, with even- 

 tual recourse to an umpire whose choice will lie with the International Court at The 

 Hague. Every guaranty is consequently foreseen for the equitable compensation 

 of the various enterprises involved. 



It will thus be seen that to remove the risk of conflict which threatened to become 

 a disturbing element, we are only abandoning in Newfoundland privileges defensible 

 with difficulty and not at all necessary, while preserving the essential right, that is, 

 fishing in territorial waters, and removing for the future from the field of possible 

 conflict a valuable right — that of fishing freely or unhindered purchasing bait along 

 the entire French shore. 



These compensations are not, moreover, the only ones to which we secured con- 

 sent. . . . 



[Livre Jaune, 1904, Accords Conclus,Ie 8 Avril 

 igo4 entre la France et L'Angleterre au sujet 

 du Moroc, de I'Egypte, de Terre-Neuve, etc., 

 pp. 7-10.] 



