{"product_id":"2940013499553","title":"THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE","description":"THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the spring of a certain year, not far from the close of the\u003cbr\u003enineteenth century, when the political relations between the United\u003cbr\u003eStates and Great Britain became so strained that careful observers on\u003cbr\u003eboth sides of the Atlantic were forced to the belief that a serious\u003cbr\u003ebreak in these relations might be looked for at any time, the fishing\u003cbr\u003eschooner Eliza Drum sailed from a port in Maine for the banks of\u003cbr\u003eNewfoundland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was in this year that a new system of protection for American\u003cbr\u003efishing vessels had been adopted in Washington.  Every fleet of these\u003cbr\u003evessels was accompanied by one or more United States cruisers, which\u003cbr\u003eremained on the fishing grounds, not only for the purpose of warning\u003cbr\u003eAmerican craft who might approach too near the three-mile limit, but\u003cbr\u003ealso to overlook the action of the British naval vessels on the coast,\u003cbr\u003eand to interfere, at least by protest, with such seizures of American\u003cbr\u003efishing boats as might appear to be unjust.  In the opinion of all\u003cbr\u003epersons of sober judgment, there was nothing in the condition of\u003cbr\u003eaffairs at this time so dangerous to the peace of the two countries as\u003cbr\u003ethe presence of these American cruisers in the fishing waters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Eliza Drum was late in her arrival on the fishing grounds, and\u003cbr\u003ehaving, under orders from Washington, reported to the commander of the\u003cbr\u003eLennehaha, the United States vessel in charge at that place, her\u003cbr\u003ecaptain and crew went vigorously to work to make up for lost time.\u003cbr\u003eThey worked so vigorously, and with eyes so single to the catching of\u003cbr\u003efish, that on the morning of the day after their arrival, they were\u003cbr\u003ehauling up cod at a point which, according to the nationality of the\u003cbr\u003ecalculator, might be two and three-quarters or three and one-quarter\u003cbr\u003emiles from the Canadian coast.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079505264880,"sku":"2940013499553","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013499553_p0.jpg?v=1763581689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013499553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}