SWISS NAVY NOT A JOKE.
WARSHIP SEIZES GREW TO TWO
The Swiss navy is not, as many people >tliink, a joke. It has recently fought and won a desperate 'battle against pirates on the. Lake of Geneva. The action arose out of a frontier incident on the line dividing uhe waters of the lake .between Prance and Switzerland. A F'renoh fishing boat from Thonon-les-Bains was fishing at the lines it had laid down to .capture the delicate lake trout when it was pounced upon by .a fast Swiss mosquito .craft,, a motor-boat whose role is to prevent poaching in, the Swiss waters. The Swiss .sailors claimed that the French boat was in Swiss waters, and casting grappling irons aboard the French craft, they proceeded to 'board it, revolver in hand. < The Frenchmen were outnumbered and! unarmed, but they seized oars and gaffs and resisted desperately until they were .overpowered. The Swiss “warship” finally towed its prize into the port of Vevey, where the two members of the crew of the French jressel were lodged in gaol.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 5
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