THE meeting of the Behring Sea arbitrators in Paris on February 23rd will be purely informal, for the intention is to adjourn till May or June, when the arbitration will be commenced. The new Government at Washington will then have been inaugurated. Sir Robert J. Pensent, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, has been interviewed. He fails to comprehend, if International Law has any practical meaning, how the claim of the United States can be justified or sustained, and he adds, that the “tacking and filling” by the American side of the Salisbury-Blaine correspondence shows the hollowness of the contention that the Behring Sea differs in any respect from the great waters of any kind anywhere on the globe.
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893