Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — U. S. ASKS BRITAIN “WHY” [ARTICLE]

U. S. ASKS BRITAIN “WHY”

Cause of Seizure of American Fishing Schooners Is Demanded. London, Aug. 25 Inquiries are being made of the British government by Robert P. Skinner, the American consul general, as the cause of the seizure of the American fishing schooners, Maxine Elliott and Lizzie Griffin, which were fishing off the coast bf Iceland and Were taken into Lerwick, Shetland Islands, by a British patrol boat. No reply to the inquiries has been received, but the belief is expressed that the schooners are the victims of the general policy which Great Britain is apparently adopting toward neutral fishermen in an effort to induce them to sell their catches to the British rather than dispose of them in quarters through which they might reach Germany.