ANGRY PASSENGERS
INCIDENT IN JAPAN
DETAINED AT A PORT
HONGKONG. 29th March,
The detention at Moji, Japan, of 10 passengers and the purser of the Eastern and Australian liner Nankin was disclosed on the vessel’s' arrival at Hongkong Indignant passengers said that the party were driving in three hired ears when they were stopped by the police and held for questioning. They were taken before a military commissioner and forced to wait two hours in custody while the authorities sought an unnamed man, who accused the party of taking photographs in a fortified area. The party had no cameras. They were released when the informant could not be discovered. The ship was delayed an hour.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 April 1934, Page 5
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