TRAWLER DISPUTE.
SPANIARDS RAID BRITISH. INCIDENT NEAR. GIBRALTAR. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) GIBRALTAR, January 11. The crews of 50 fishing craft, manned by 300 Spaniards, objecting to British .craft fishing their reserves', armed themselves with revolvers, knives and bludgeons, and surrounded the Spanish trawler San Antonio, six miles north-east of Gibraltar. They swarmed aboard and forced the crew to put to sea in search of the British trawler Juanville, which was believed to be cruising thereabouts. Unable to locate her, they seized a second Spanish boat, the Maria, and destroyed her fishing gear. Both craft were looted of provisions and latei found grounded near Laninea.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 79, 13 January 1928, Page 5
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