FINES AT TOKIO
BRITISH STEAMERS
(Received January 27, 10.45 a.m.)
TOKIO, January. 26.
The steamer Marion Moller was fined £88 for infringing rights in.the fortified zone in Tokio Bay. The authorities decided not to confiscate the ship.
A Magistrate at .Nagoya fined the tiro arrested members of the crew of the Severnleigh, Mackenzie and Kangarius, £12 each for destroying Japanese property. The Severnleigh sails tonight.
The British cargo vessel Marion Moller was detained by the Japanese, who forced her to anchor in a storm in a bay until it was ascertained whether any of the crew could be charged with espionage. They were cleared of suspicion. Seven members of the crew of the British steamer Severnleigh, under charter to a Japanese firm, were arrested on January 22, but tae-oi; them
were released. It was stated that ,the two who were still held landed at Tdkio during a religious festival, had a few drinks, snatched flags from a house, and ran away. They did not trample the flags, which the police were unable to find. The captain apologised.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 9
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177FINES AT TOKIO Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 9
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