Commons Informed of Difficulty of Delimiting London, Feb. 26.
Questioned in the House of Commons today regarding the extent of Norwegian territorial waters, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, said the formation of principles on which, in view of the special configuration of the Norwegian coast, the limit of territorial waters should be drawn, had been the subject of much discussion, and the question could not be said to have been finally decided.
The Norwegian Government, while not departing from its claim to a four-mile limit, had informed the British Government that for the purposes of the present war, they would not maintain the neutrality provision outside a distance of three miles from the coast.
In response to supplementary questions, Mr. Butler said that Norway's territorial waters extended for a considerable distance owing to the existence of islands.—Reuter.
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