JAPANESE SPY SCARE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8046, 9 February 1906, Page 3

JAPANESE SPY SCARE.

£A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION. Received 8, 11.51 a.in. Svuxey, February 8. fcTke" .Japanese Consul-General stales » he lias roccived uo information, official or otherwise, about tbi' seizure of plans reported yesterday. He k'.. however, able to surmise that the passengers referred to were Nishikawa and Kanernutsu. The former visited Australia as the representative of (he Foreign Trade Assoeiation at Kobe to make cn<|iiiries into harbor administration at Sydney, with a view to applying the experiences to improvement in the adniiuislratiou at Kobe. Kauvmals.ii is A well-known mereliaiit, with a branch house at Sydney. Nishikawa was given every facility by the Sydney Harbor Trunl to-inspect their nirlhoils, and rcaeived plans which may have occasioned the mistake by the Customs Official, He ridicules the idea of forti jjcalioM plans.? %0& the otkei hand the Harbor Trust officials are emphatic that uo plans ~\r— were supplied, except a sketch of a shed ou the wharf, which was quite impossible to be mistaken for defence plans

%• gThi" TiiMMiiki 'JtiiMiii;; Cluli lias deeided I" liolil its mi-ding on tin-1 ath of April ami not an the £!nd of JJiU'i'li as previously arranged. The programme* -will be issued in due course, and any information ean be obtained front the Secretary, Mr Giltaow, Brpugliaro-strect.

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