ANGLO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3218, 15 May 1911, Page 3

ANGLO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION.

FORECAST OF CONVENTION. GREAT ADVANCE ON PREVIOUS TREATIES. According to the “Daily Telegraph,” a Government organ, the Anglo-Ame-rican Peace Convention is not likely to be signed for at least a fortnight. Sufficient progress, however, has been made with the negotiations to warrant a forecast as to the provisions of the agreement. It is understood that the convention, which will be for a period of five years, represents a great advance over the 1907 treaty or any similar treaties previously negotiated between first-class inasmuch as it dees not contain a clause excluding matters affecting the independence or the honor of the contracting parties, or other vital matters. Before referring any dispute to the arbitration tribunal at the Hague the contracting parties, it is understood, shall conclude a special agreement clearly defining the points at issue, the scope of the arbitrators’ powers, and the period within which the inevstigating tribunal shall be formed. Before concluding such an agreement in any matter vitally affecting the interests of any self-governing dominion, Britain reserves the right to obtain the concurrence of the Government of that dominion.