THE SYDNEY SENSATION.
CONSUL’S UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATION.
By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Rooeived 1.5 a.m., Feb. 10. Sydney, Fob. 9. I Tho Jopanrse Consul, in a litter to the I Proas, states that tho luggogo of tho Kanomatiu and Nishikaw was not landed 1 at all. They wired to tho captain to lock the cabin, and they subsequently' received thoir luggugo intact at llongkoDg. Ho 1 oould only surmise that tho citizen who 1 receivol tbo letter, or his corresponded, was luboring under a dolusion as etrong as that which led the Baltic Fleet to see Japanese warships on tho Dogger Bank. Ho concludes by saying that in matters of this kind, calculat'd to disturb tho friendlinoßS existing botwoen nations, I and which might under somo circumstances bo pio luctivo of serious consequences, it would be well if a complete onquiry were made to verify allegations before they receive publicity. The editor of the Telegiapb, in reply, I says that tbc statement was received from a quarter that no journal in Australia would disregard in Buch a matter,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 10 February 1906, Page 2
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177THE SYDNEY SENSATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 10 February 1906, Page 2
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