RECENTLY I read about a plan by West Wales Maritime Heritage Society to have a memorial. for Japanese sailors killed off the coast of Pembrokeshire in World War One by a German U-Boat.

Japan was an ally of Britain in the First World War. In principle I have no objection to this memorial. However Japan at present has plans to kill 4000 whales in Antarctica.

Whaling involves the slow painful death of these beautiful animals. It sometimes takes them many hours to die in great pain. The time has come when whaling must stop. I feel there should not be any memorial to these sailors until Japan abandons the murder of whales forever.

MARK FRANCHI

West Wales Animal Welfare Group