THE THREE-MILE LIMIT.
CAPTAIN OF A TRAWLER FINED. TRAWLERS MOLESTED. Received Auguat 27, 9.10 p.m. LONDON, August 27. The captain of the Grimsby trawler Taurus has been fined £ls at Flensburg, and the trawl catch confiscated, for alleged fishing within the German three miles limit. The Taurus skipper was so positive that he was outside the limit that he went to the expense of securing a leading German advocate to defend him. It was stated by the defendant that the commander of the gunboat had declined to listen to remonstrances o- examine proof .that the skipper was right by his bearing and chart. Sir George Doughty, member for the district, intends to raise the whole question in Parliament. It is alleged at Grimsby that when the arrest was made the vessel wa« stripped of everything movable connected with fishing operations- an unparalleled procedure involving to the owners a loss of £2OO. Other trawlers have been molested nine miles from the coast. There is a feeling in Grimsby that a British cruiser ought to be sent to protect the trawlers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9177, 28 August 1908, Page 5
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179THE THREE-MILE LIMIT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9177, 28 August 1908, Page 5
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