Soviet ships in Lyttelton
Sir, — There is one point in T. R. Loudon’s letter (August 7) which, surely, most people will find puzzling. One source of T. R. Loudon’s information, Brian Freemantle, a former foreign editor of Britain’s “Daily Mail” says; “It has long been known that the Soviet trawler fleets are constructed entirely for spying not fishing.” Fair enough, but if we can believe Captain Nikolai Fedorovich Artomov that “the refrigerated holds of the trawlers were filled with fish before they left Russian ports,” the question arises, where do they
obtain the fish to fill the refrigerated holds if the Soviet trawler fleets are constructed entirely for spying, not fishing? Where else could they obtain such enormous quantities of fish if not from Japan where this whole “fishy” story seems to have originated? But would the Japanese want to endanger such a valuable market by blowing the lid off this piscatorially perfidious operation? Or is it all a load of cods wallop? — Yours, etc., M. CREEL.
August 7, 1985. Soviet ships in Lyttelton — M. Creel. [The rhetorical questions in the letter will remain unanswered; the subject is closed. — Editor.]
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