Identifier: ThirdSalisburyAdministration1895-1900 (find matches)
Title: Third Salisbury administration, 1895-1900
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Whates, Harry Richard
Subjects: Robert Cecil-marquess of Salisbury Great Britain-History-Victoria,1837-1901
Publisher: Westminster,Vacher

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before it on behalf of Venezuela and of * Great Britain and arguments of portentous length indulged in by counsel. The Award was pronounced on October 3rd. It gave decisions but no reasons, determining the boundary itself in a few clear sentences whose geographical significance can easily be followed on the accompanying sketch map. The effect of the Award is that the Venezuelan claim to the country down to the Essequibo— three-fourths of the entire area of British Guiana—is rejected absolutely; that the extreme limit of the British claim, on which our Government was not prepared to insist is also rejected, the former Venezuelan mission area being retained by the Eepublic; and that, as regards the provisional boundary suggested by Sir Richard Schomburgk sixty years ago, Barima Point is cut off and a strip of Savannah land between the Upper Cuyuni from the bend ,at Uruan and the Venamu tributary of the Cuyuni. Now Barima Point was never of the least use to Great Britain. We have no
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ARBITRATION ACCEPTED. 89 designs upon the Orinoco River and in all human probability itwould never have become worth our while to fortify the point andcommand the mouth of the stream. Movable forts in the shapeof a fleet give us the potential command of the river. The soleuse of Barima Point lies in the fact that the Eivers Barima andAmakura flow through it and that these give far easier access tothe north-western interior, than is afforded by the Eiver Wainiand its tributary the Barama. This access the Award secures tous. An important stipulation provides that the Amakura andBarima shall be open to navigation by the ships of all nations intimes of peace, subject to the same rates and regulations as weapplied to Venezuelan craft, and that no Customs duties shall becharged on goods in transit. Therefore machinery and stores forthe goldfields of the Barima and Barama can pass through whathas become Venezuelan territory free of Customs dues. Customsimposts only become chargeable on Briti

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