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Blockade: Searching of Spanish ships at Seirra Leone for contraband
Catalogue reference: WO 158/548
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- 1915 June
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Blockade: Searching of Spanish ships at Seirra Leone for contraband
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War Office: Military Headquarters: Correspondence and Papers, First World War
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