"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". [و‎‎٥‎٠] (٢٠٨/١٠٨)

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MUSCAT DHOWS ARBITRATION.
THE COUNTER-CASE
ON BEHALF 03? THE GOVERNMENT OE HIS BEITANNIO MAJESTY.
I—PEELIMINAEY OBSERVATIONS.
THE French Government has taken exception
to the appearance of the name of His Highness the
Sultan of Muscat on the title page of the British
Case as a party to the present arbitration, and to
the insertion of the statement at the end of p. 4
of the British Case—that His Majesty's Govern-
Appendix l p 39. m ent were acting at the request of His Highness.
Although they regard this protest as of a
purely technical character, His Majesty's Go
vernment, in deference to the desire of the
French Government, have agreed to treat as
deleted the words objected to. But in making
this concession His Majesty's Government re
serve all their rights under the Anglo French
Declaration of 1862, and the Compromis of
the 13th October, 1901-, to assert in the fullest
sense the independence and sovereignty of His
Highness the Sultan of Muscat, and to submit
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evidence and arguments in proof of the allega
tion that that independence is menaced by the
claim of France to take subjects of Muscat
under her protection. And it must also be
Appendix 2, p. 40. distinctly stated that the arguments in the
British Case are presented on behalf of His
Highness the Sultan, who has spontaneously
expressed his wish to have his case presented by
His Majesty's Government.
Finally, His Majesty's Government submit that
the whole of their policy has been directed to
strengthening and consolidating the position of
the Sultan of Muscat as an independent Sovereign;
that they have not sought to obtain from him a
lease of territory; that they have not attempted
in any way to exercise any jurisdiction over his
subjects ashore or in the territorial waters of
Muscat; and that, in fact, all their dealings with
His Highness have been upon the basis of his
independence.