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Report of the commission of inquiry
constituted in virtue of the agreement for inquiry signed at Rome
between France and Italy, May 20, 1912 - Malte, July 23, 1912. |
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[p413] The commissioners,
after having examined and compared all data gathered both from the documents
presented by the two parties [p414] and from the evidence in the case; after
having done the important part, which was the weighing of all this evidence;
and after having taken into consideration the degree of uncertainty
appertaining thereto, has reached the following conclusions:
I.
The evidence and documents presented are not of a nature to permit of
determination of the exact geographical points where occurred the various
acts which have been submitted to inquiry, but simply of the zones in which
they occurred, it being impossible to decide upon an exact point in the
zones.
1. Regarding the point where the Tavignano stopped.
This point is within the area of a rectilinear quadrilateral set off by the
following four apexes:
Apex C
Latitude 33°9'20" North,
Longitude 8°56'40" East of Paris.
Apex B
Latitude 33°29'10" North,
Longitude 8°55'10" East of Paris.
Apex A
Latitude 33°6'30" North,
Longitude 8°54'40" East of Paris.
Apex D
Latitude 33°26'30" North,
Longitude 8°56'20" East of Paris.
2. Regarding the pursuit of the mahones:
A. By the Fulmine.
The Fulmine, setting out from an indeterminate point in the zone above
defined, pursued the mahones, perhaps going out of that zone, in a direction
impossible to determine definitely but which was either southeast or
southwest by south.
The pursued mahones were located at the following points, which are the
centers of inexact circles of half-mile radii:
Camouna
Latitude 33°24'10" North,
Longitude 9°00'15 East of Paris.
Gaulois
Latitude 33°22'40" North,
Longitude 8°59'55" East of Paris. [p415]
After this pursuit the Fulmine returned to moor near the Tavignano, at point
H, which the commission has chosen as the center of an inexact circle of a
half-mile radius.
B. The Canopo cannonaded the Gaulois when that mahone was at a point
indicated above and when it (the Canopo) was proceeding in a northerly
direction from the point indicated in its log-book by
Latitude 33°20'45" North,
Longitude 9°00'50" East of Paris.
which point the commission has also adopted as the center of an inexact
circle of a half-mile radius.
The commission, after its visit to the localities and after verification in
the waters of Zarzis, decided, in reporting, to use for the hydrography,
configuration and nature of the coast and neighboring banks the French
Hydrographic Service Card No. 4247. The commission recalls the fact that its
verification was the object of the proces-verbal of July 15, 1912, which is
numbered 68.
The president having read the present report to the commissioners, the
report and its conclusions have been unanimously adopted.
Done at Malte, in triplicate, July 23, 1912.
Commissioners: Guiseppe Genoese Zerbi; Somborn; Segrave |
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