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INTRODUCTION 7

One English and one French resident commissioner,

One Spanish president of the Court,

One English and one French judge,

One Dutch registrar,

One Spanish prosecuting attorney,

One Dutch native advocate,

One English and one French police commissioner.

The Santa Cruz Islands were annexed by England

in 1898 and belong to the jurisdiction of the Solomon

Islands,

GEOGRAPHY

The New Hebrides lie between 165° and 170°
east longitude, and reach from 13° to 20° south lati-
tude. The Santa Cruz Islands lie 116° east and 11°

south.
The New Hebrides and Banks Islands consist of

thirteen larger islands and a great number of islets and
rocks, covering an area of about 15,900 km. The
largest island is Espiritu Santo, about 107 x 57 km,
with 4900 km. surface. They are divided into the
Torresgroup, the Banks Islands, the Central and the
Southern New Hebrides. The Banks and Torres
Islands and the Southern New Hebrides are com-
posed of a number of isolated, scattered islands, while
the Central group forms a chain, which divides at Epi
into an eastern and a western branch, and encloses a
stretch of sea, hemming it in on all sides except the
north. On the coast of this inland sea, especially on
the western islands, large coral formations have grown,
changing what was originally narrow mountain chains,