FRICTION IN FAR EAST.
+ TRIAL OF JAPANESE SAILORS. CONCERN AT MOSCOW'S INTENTIONS. (Received July 24, 11.57 p.m.) TOKYO, July 24. Officials here are seriously concerned at Consular advices that the Soviet is proceeding with the trial of the officers of the Kotohira Maru, disregarding Japan's strong protest that the vessel was arrested outside the territorial waters of Kamchatka. [On July 8, a Russian guard-ship arrested the Japanese fishing steamer Kotohira Maru and took her to Petropavlovsk. The Japanese sent a destroyer to intercept the guard-ship, but it was too late. The Japanese naval authorities then declared that the Kotohira Maru was outside Kamchatka territorial waters at the time of her arrest. There had just previously been a good deal of friction between Japan and Russia over the shooting of three Japanese fishermen, when they were landing to get drinking water for a distressed vessel. Russia had promised to punish the coastguards who had shot the fishermen, but the Japanese claimed that this was not
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 25 July 1933, Page 11
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