NORTH SEA TROUBLE
ENGLISH .FISHERMEN/ ALLECED GERMAN INTERFERENCE. SOME EXCITEMENT. (BT TELEGRAPH—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) London, July 3. There is growing excitement at Grimsby and Hull at the activity of tho German fisheries protection torpedoers in harassing and seizing British trawlers.' 'Sir George Doughty, M.P. for Great Grimsby, in a letter to Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Stato for Foreign Affairs, suggests the sending of training squadron to cruise the fishery grounds. ........ Sir Georgo Doughty alleges that German torpodoers pounce on British fisher-boats and compel them to salute the German flag. They then takp the boats to Cuxhaven, where tho fish is destroyed, and'the shipping gear confiscated. ii„,. , According to tho Germans, tho disputes are in regard to the exact position of fisheries, and are due to tho British fishermen's obsolete charts.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 242, 6 July 1908, Page 7
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130NORTH SEA TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 242, 6 July 1908, Page 7
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