BRITISH TRAWLERS SEIZED.
BY GERMAN TORPEDOERS
EXCITEMENT AT GRIMSBY" AND HULL. LONDON, July' 3. There is a growing exitement at Grimsby and Hull at the activity of the German fisheries protection torpedoers in harassing and seizing British trawlers. Sir George Doughty, M.P., for Grimsby, in a letter to Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Alt'airs, suggests the sending of a training squadron to cruise the fishery grounds. According to the Germans, putes are in regard to the exact position of fisheries, and are due to the British fishermen's obsolete charts.
FISH SEIZED AND DESTROYED,
LONDON, July 3. Sir George Doughty alleges that German torpedoers pounce on British fisher boats and compel them to 3alute the German flag. They then take the boats to Cuxhaven, where the fish is destroyed, and the fishing gear confiscated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9134, 6 July 1908, Page 5
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136BRITISH TRAWLERS SEIZED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9134, 6 July 1908, Page 5
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