ACTIONS PILED
AGAINST JAPANESE LINER. DEPARTURE UNEXPECTEDLY HELD UP. IMPORTERS SEEK VALUED CARGO (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Roe. 9.5.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.l. The departure of the Japanese liner Tatuta Marti received an unexpected check when importers filed libel actions seeking possession of valuable cargo, which includes 2,500,000 dollars’ worth of silk on top of what millions of dollars of contraband United States currency has been smuggled aboard... Customs agents began opening every safe-deposit box and searching every state-room on the Tatuta Maru, which, with a largo list of anxious passengers, hovered off the coast for six days before docking, until she received an assurance that the Customs Department would grant a clearance; but the ship’s movements are now in the hands of the Justice Department.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 249, 2 August 1941, Page 5
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