INCIDENT IN JAPAN.
PLEASURE PARTY DETAINED. Alleging that they had trespassed on the prohibited zone of Yokosuka, the Japanese Admiralty gendarmerie arrested Air H. A. Macrae, vicecommercial counsellor at the British Empire, Airs Macrae, and five others, Germans and Swiss. They were released after lengthy crossquestioning, having been detained for a night and a day. All are prominent and respected residents of Tokio and Yokohama. They did not carry cameras and were simply sightseeing in a boat im the western shore of the peninsula.
A Japanese boatman arrested them when they landed. The incident follows the arrest and release of ail American who took photographs of the Tokio waterfront where there happened to be a Japanese destroyer. The Navy spokesman said that the party intruded in an isolated fortified zone, but had been absolved from wrong intentions. The Japanese boatman was partly to blame. H t > added that the American got into trouble because he took rt photograph of a warship in dock.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12618, 10 April 1934, Page 7
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