AN EXCITING INCIDENT.
GERMAN STEAMER FIRED ON. LONDON, January 16. Advices from French West Afiica state that the Liberian Customs gunboat Lark, commanded by a British Naval Reserve officei-, fired on a steamer belonging to the German Woermann line off Gloc ester. The Lark \va« recently instructed to stop breaches of Customs regulations and to prevent the entrance of ships to Liberian ports which are not open to the trade o£ the Avor'd. A guardi-hip stationed on the Cameroon coast has started for Libeiia. January 18. The Times' Berlin correspondent, referling to the action of the Liberian Custom." gunboat Lark In firing on the steamer belonging to this German Woermann line, s-tat.es that the Woeimanns deny that the Lark fiied the *hot.«. The incident is officially dtclared to be devoid of political colour.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2862, 20 January 1909, Page 26
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133AN EXCITING INCIDENT. Otago Witness, Issue 2862, 20 January 1909, Page 26
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