"التحكيم في قضية مراكب الداو الشراعية في مسقط. محكمة التحكيم الدائمة في لاهاي. السماح برفع الأعلام الفرنسية على مراكب الداو الشراعية في مسقط. القضية بالنيابة عن الحكومة البريطانية". [ظ‎‎٣‎٩] (٢٠٨/٨٧)

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CONCLUSION.
The facts disclosed in tlie former documents
have now been reviewed, and the conclusions to
be drawn therefrom with respect to the French
claims have been discussed. His Majesty's
Government have refrained from contradicting in
minute detail all the allegations contained in the
French documents, the majority of which appear
to them to be irrelevant to the questions at issue,
but they are fully prepared to elucidate, by oral or
written statement or arguments, or production of
further documents, any points as to which the
Tribunal may require more light.
They venture to submit that the statements
and arguments of the British Case and Counter-
Case have not been met in any way by those in
the French "Memoire " and " Contre-Memoire,"
and that they are amply justified in maintaining
that the claim of France to protect 1,000 Omani
Arabs and their families in their native country
from their natural Sovereign is unwarranted by
Treaty, usage, or international law, and amounts
to an attack on the independence of the Sultan,
which is inconsistent with the obligations of
France both towards the Sultan and Great
Britain.
His Majesty's Government submit that a review
of all the evidence and documents establishes the
correctness of the following propositions, which
are the same as those set out in the original
British Case :—
"1. No subject of the Sultan of Muscat acquires
any right to the status of a French protege under
the Treaty of 1844 by the fact that he is the
owner, captain, or a member of the crew of a
native vessel which has, by whatever means,
obtained French papers or flag.
" 2. By her adhesion to the XXXIInd Article
of the Brussels Act of 1890, France is under an
international obligation not to grant French flags
or papers to any native vessel unless its owner,
at the time of grant, is (a) a French citizen, or is
(b) a French protege by reason of his being a
subject of a State under French protection.
" 3. France is equally debarred by the Declara
tion of 1862 from withdrawing any subject of the