RUSSIAN WHALERS
CONFISCATION URGED POSSIBLE JAPANESE ACTION (Received January 30, 10.45 p.m.) TOKIO, Jan. 30 The police urge the confiscation of the four Russian whalers which entered the prohibited port on Bonin Islands and were later taken to Yokohama under naval escort. The evidence of the log books does not support the excuses advanced, but the authorities seem reluctant to incur the odium of being accused of retaliation. T.'yore have been many alleged illegal seizures of Japanese vessels in Kamchatka .Waters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 9
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