Associated Press: Japanese whalers blasted conservationists with a water cannon and hurled hunks of metal and golf balls at them in a clash today in icy Antarctic waters, an anti-whaling group said. Two members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were lightly injured in the early morning fracas in heavy seas about 2,000 miles south-east of the Australian state of Tasmania, said Paul Watson, the group’s leader. A spokesman for the whalers said he had no information on the claims. The …