SYDNEY SPY SENSATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8046, 10 February 1906, Page 2

SYDNEY SPY SENSATION.

STATEMENT MY JAPANESE CONSUL. UIDJCI'LES THE STOIIY. Received <l, 1.5 UUI Sviinkv, February y. Hie Japanese Consul, in a letter lo ll.c press, stales that the lugw of Ranenintsu and Nishikuwa was , 10 t landed at all. llu wired to (be Captuiu to lock tho cabin, and they subsequently received llieir luggage iutuct at Kong Kong. He can only surmise that the citizen who received the letter, or Ma correspondent, was laboring under a delusion as slroug as that which led tho Baltic Fleet to sec Japanese warships on the Dogger Bank. He eon. eludes by saying that matters of thi s kmd were calculated to disturb (he friendliness existing between fonations, which might, under some circumstances, be productive of serious consequences. It would be well if a complete enquiry were made as t 0 the veracity of the allegations before they received publicity. The editor of the " Daily Telegraph " in reply, says that the statements were received from a quarter that no journal "i Australia Mould disregard in such a matter.