Activists claim rough tactics in battle with Japanese whalers
Two held after boarding Japanese harpoon ship in Southern Ocean
The battle of wills between Japanese whalers and
environmentalists in the Antarctic took a dramatic turn
yesterday when two members of the marine conservation group Sea
Shepherd were detained by the crew of the harpoon ship they had
climbed aboard.  Their detention came hours after a federal
court in Sydney ordered Japan to end this year's kill of almost
1,000 whales, ruling the hunt illegal because of it being
conducted in Australia's exclusive economic zone.  Giles Lane, a
Briton, along with Benjamin Potts, an Australian, were held
after boarding the ship named Yushin Maru No. 2, in the Southern
Ocean. Their intention was to deliver a letter calling on the
fleet to end its "illegal" hunt. Lane, 35, wrote in the letter:
"It is my intent to deliver this message and then to request
that you allow me to disembark from your vessel without harm or
seizure."  The two sides offered wildly