The Hague, Apr. 3.
The Netherlands Minister in Berlin, Jonkheer Dr. H. M' van Haersma, has been charged to make a serious protest against German air attacks on three Dutch fishing vessels, and especially against the "absolutely intolerable violence" against the trawler Protinus (202 tons).
The Netherlands Government asks that measures be taken against the offenders, and reserves the right to claim an indemnity.
The Protinus was bombed and sunk by a German plane about a fortnight ago. The captain and a mate were killed on the bridge. The "plane then machine-gunned the remaining ten men of the crew as they made for a boat. Two men died from exposure and were buried at sea while they were drifting six days in an open boat without food and water, until they were saved by the British submarine Unity.—Reuter.
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