Ambassadors Protest Seizure of Foreign Sailors

50%

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 36.

Read the full edition

Ambassadors Protest Seizure of Foreign Sailors

The British, German, and French ambassadors at Washington have entered protests to the State Department against the impressment of seamen of their several nationalities in ports on the Pacific Coast. The ambassadors ask that this government take steps to prevent forcible and surreptitious seizure of sailors in American ports.