PRIVATE WAR?
AMERICAN FISHERMEN POSSIBLE ACTION AGAINST JAPANESE THREATENING SITUATION (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK. May 25. (Received May 26, at 11.10 p.m.) The Alaska Fishermen’s Union, responding to a request from American fishing boats in the Bering Sea, sent men with rifles and ammunition for a possible personal war against Japanese fishermen in Alaskan waters, says the Seattle correspondent of the United Press, The secretary of the union (Mr William Hicker) said: "We are not going to fool around any longer with this Japanese situation. The fishermen are angry and will take action to drive the Japanese out.” Outside Control The Washington correspondent of the New York Times telegraphed to-night: “ With respect to the prospects of the use of force by American fishermen againsi Japanese, it was said in some official quarters that neither the United States nor Japan would have any control over such actions on the high seas.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23511, 27 May 1938, Page 10
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