The Signode Strap and the Signode Seal provide strength and security and reduce your packing and shipping expenses. in cold blood. It is a lie, and proved to be so by neutral evidence. The commander of one of the Norwegian torpedo boats on the scene, visited H.M.S. Cossack prior to the despatch of a boarding party. He refused to accompany the latter, but when the struggle commenced on board the Altmark; at once left the Cossack remarking, according to an official statement issued by the Norwegian Admiralty, that he had not come on board to watch the fighting. The German crew fought as it had every right to do if the captain was so ill-advised as to order it, and were quelled by appropriate action by the British boarding party. Upon these facts the German government puts up the usual bleat about piracy, a subject upon which it is best qualified to dilate. There can be no mistake about the attitude of the British Government with regard to this matter. In an official statement issued on Saturday night the Government states explicitly that the British vessels acted upon orders and with the full approval of His Majesty's Government. Full responsibility has been publicly accepted and that because of the strength of the British case in the matter. It must be
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