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Show THOUGHT HE SAW A TORPEDO BOAT HULL. Eng., Nov. 17. The third day of the board of trade Inquiry into the North sea Incident opened with further reiterations reitera-tions of the oft-repeated story that there were no Japanese, no guns and no ammunition ammu-nition on board the trawler fleet, end that the fishermen could conceive of no reason rea-son why they had been attacked. None of them had been asked by any Japanese agency to do anything, nor had any of them seen a Japanese or strange warship of any description In the North sea. with the exception of the Russians. One witness wit-ness admitted that on seeing the North sea hospital trawler Alpha with extinguished extin-guished lights he had remarked: "There's a torpedo boat." Cross-examined by' Dr. Woodhouse, counsel representing the Russian embassy, the witness said he was positive it was not a torpedo boat, but -he was not sure It was the Alpha. He never before had seen a trawler with all her lights out. V , . |