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Show NINE SHIPS START ON BIG SEAL HUNT 8T. JOHNS, N. V., March 10. All legal restrictions for the protection of i sesls bav been removed from the op-1 ration of I he Newfoundland sealing fleet, which sailed from her today on Its annual hunt. Nine steamir made the start, eight for the northeast coaat of the colony and on, the Viking, for the Gulf of Kt. Lawrence. The work among the treacherous lea floe 1 dsngerous and It 1 seldom that a season passe without some loss In the fleet. Because the Is at two seasons were tha least profitable on record, the government gov-ernment decided to suspend for this year the protective law designed to prevent too serious depletion of the seal herds. ' |