Tho sardine fishermen of Brittany oro being harassed by great schools of piratical porpoises, whose attacks have greatly reduced the ranks of tho small, market fish. The Ministry of Jlarino liaiS been petitioned to assign seaplanes to the fishing porta, armed with bombs of 300-yard destructive area, for tho purposo of oxter Donating the trespassers. Tho Dogger Bank, covering sevoral hundred square miles, is the most prolific fishing ground, and about, 400,000 tons of fish of various kinds are taken there every year by European fishers. " Hearts of Oak" havo boon chosen by tho Admiralty as the sailors' marching soni; on all ceremonial occasions. Tho Royal Marines will retain "A Lifo on tho Ocean Wave" as thoir marching tuna.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18007, 6 August 1920, Page 6
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