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British case was realized by our Representative and will be taken cognizance of
by Tribunal now sitting.
ARABIA. [July 19.]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 1.
No. 1.
Treasury to Foreign Office.—{Beceived July 19.)
Treasury Chambers ;
July 18, 1905.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 6th instant, I am to request you to inform the
Marquess of Lansdowne that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury
sanction the appointment of Mr. Ronald Graham (1st Secretary in His Majes
ty's Diplomatic Service, at present employed in the Eoreign Office) as His
Majesty's Agent to attend the Muscat Arbitration Tribunal, which will meet at
The Hague on the 25th instant.
My Lords agree to the proposal that Mr. Graham should be granted subsis
tence allowance of 80s. a day during the term of his employment at The H ague,
and that he should also receive his actual expenses of locomotion, together with
the (vouched) cost of a room for the transaction of official business.
With reference to the penultimate paragraph of your letter, I am to signify
their Lordships' approval of the offer of a fee of 105/. to Mr. Craies, and to the
grant to him of subsistence allowance of 30s. a*day while absent from England,
together with his actual expenses of locomotion.
I am, etc,
(Signed) G. H. MURRAY.
MUSCAT DHOWS ARBITRATION.
Argument on behalf of the (government of Sis Britannic Majesty.
PREFACE.
The Tribunal is now in possession of the Cases and Counter-Cases contain
ing the statements of the Parties to the present controversy, and of the facts
and documents upon which the Parties base their respective contentions.
The object of the present Argument will be to lay before the Tribunal, as
briefly as is consistent with clearness, what in the view of His Majesty's Govern
ment are the proper conclusions to the drawn, with respect to the matter included
in the " Compromis," from the statements and documents submitted, and to
indicate the irrelevancy, for the solution of the questions in controversy, of a
very great portion of the contents of the French " Memoire '' and " Contre-
Memoire."