Berlin, Dec. 30.
Britain was officially charged with an "unheard-of breach of internation-law" yesterday in a statement describing ihe capture of a German vessel within the Spanish three-mile limit, The afternoon o? December 26, the statement said, a British naval plane flew over a German steamer, the Gluecksburg, in the neighbourhood of Cadiz, about half a mile from the Spanish coast. About half an hour later, the statement continued, a ritish destroyer appeared and came within 300 yards of the German si and signalled the steamer to fall it. The steamer did not obey, it was said, and the destroyer unsuccessfully attempted to cut it off from shore. The British destroyer ordered the steamer to heave to and immediately lowered a motor boat with b prize crew aboard armed with machineguns, the statement charged.—The statement said the captain of the
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