MISSING MAPS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 187, 23 July 1920, Page 7

MISSING MAPS.

I JAPANESE REQ I I-S J. AMERICAN EXPLANATION'. Tokyo. July 9. The American Charge <i Alia ires, replying to a reiiuest oy -,..e .Japui.e-e Eoreign Minister to delr.er up the imp. alleged to lucre bren >t leu Irolu tn.. War !)• par-men t ureime.'-. and sold to an' American military attache, explainj . d how the Embassy came mW po.sesj siou of the maps. | T!,«.<e. it was stated, were Siberian maps hele’i'umi to the Russian imp?-, I rial General Stall, and there was no, IcvMenie that thev were m-".’ tue pro-1 i .>er t v <;f the .Lfprinese Govei iiineiu. > They were offered for sale to -die attache i who decided that they were valueless, | land desired to return them a> ti.e maul win oil ■■.wA them. The Charge d’.\t!:n r 's potihed h.*, willingness t-t return tli.’:i w ' 'em-; Miu-sh.d Oya.na. or t. hi- - rar. Ho. rpiiuesti'd tl:«‘ Serrig i Office _ t.» g*»‘’i pnbini y -<> the text ct die ..ote, <ail | ‘he r.-quest was den cd. "bile t.ioi Embassy is nimble to publish it. because the publication v. •ni l be action-j able, on tile grounds that the vase rs sub juiiicc. I The Japanese Press report the Ins recently oi some oi the inosc valuame : military maps lioni the r.'.rn’.osiin he:ul-| i quarters, .nirmx them h. i:..z maps cl ; i the tin tifnations cl i’espad ires. l.'e] • Press iuiHiia.i - th a: these w< nt to un| 'same puretuiscr as die bi'-erufi limps. I I An carliir message am.-, urn cd ime: arrest of a nephew <>! the lam.ms licli.-i Marshal Oyanin on a charge of selling strategic maps and Lie- cl the Survey Department of tin- War Office ti an unnamed for.igner t:ir £ 1.000. The police in i\ statement s;.id that Oyama ’■was intimate with a certain American land also a military attache-at a ••cer- ; tain Embassy.’' The police were ns I luctmit to act because ol the high importance of the relatives and their ; h.incurable name, but were forced to do so by the seriousness of the offence.| i tidier arrests were expected.