JAPANESE SEAL POACHERS.
CONFLICT WITH AMERICANS NO INTER NAT 10 XAL COMPLICATIONS. Received U, 10.10 p.m. New Vobk, August 9.
The Hon. Mr Bacon, Actiug-Secre-tary of State, has communicated with Mr Wright, United States Ambassador at Toluo, and tlie Japanese Charge d' A ffaires at Washington, the facts rolatintj to the shootings at St. Paul ieland. Beyond acc urteous expression of regret at the untoward incident, no apology is offered as the Japanese were simply poachers. The Charge d' Affaires agree there is no ground for •in International incident. The •ichooners under covers of a fog made a concerted raid on three widely separated seal rookeries, killing many .•ows which were m search of food for iheir young. Suiuc of the Japanese on landing were surprised and captured on July sixteenth, and others were discovered on the seventeenth skinning two hundred sea's. They refused to surrender and were shot while trying to remove the booty to the boats. Some escaped with one hundred and twenty skins.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8178, 10 August 1906, Page 3
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166JAPANESE SEAL POACHERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8178, 10 August 1906, Page 3
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