Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Broome, the advance officer of the British world fliers, arrived from the North at the Kurile Islands off Japan, after a two months' adventurous and turbulent voyage in the Canadian trawler Thiepval. Broome established bases on Behring Island, Attu and other places in the Aleutians in preparation for MacLaren's trans-Pacific flight. There was no doubt that even with the best of luck this is extremely dangerous territory. Martin's disappearance only served to emphasize its hazards. Broome left nothing undone to insure success although he called the undertaking "at long odds a gamble...
Lord Curzon's high-handed note to Soviet Russia, demanding satisfaction for the seizure of a fishing trawler in the Baltic Sea, compensation for murdered and imprisoned Britishers, the cessation of anti-British propaganda in Asia and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of insulting letters by Gregory Weinstein attacking Britain for mediating to save Mgr. Butchka-vitch, has turned out to be a decided diplomatic victory for Great Britain...
...cause of this outburst is Lord Curzon's recent note to the Soviet Government. The reason for sending the note was the seizure of a British trawler...
...British note accused the Bolsheviki of violating the terms of the Anglo-Russian commercial agreement, and, of course, with seizing the trawler. The note was a virtual ultimatum, which incensed the Soviet Government. "Don't dictate," say the Bolsheviki, "we are ready to negotiate on equal terms, but we will not be led!" That is the gist of the Soviet reply to Curzon. Much capital has been made out of a British warship, which is now in the White Sea, but it is certain that neither Britain nor Russia has any intention of going to war. The most that...
...Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that a strong note would be sent to the Soviet Government of Russia protesting against a series of Soviet actions against the British and demanding the release of a British trawler captain whom the Bolsheviki have imprisoned for fishing in Russian Avaters. Asked by Colonel J. C. Wedgwood (Laborite) whether the Government was aware that the British people is not anxious to precipitate another war, Mr. McNeill answered : " I am perfectly aware of that; it is for that reason that the Government has taken the action...