THE JAPANESE SPY STORY.
STATEMENT'BY- TTTK GO2?SULGENEKAI. ' "
United Press Association—Per Electric • Telegraph—Copyright. . , Received 11.54 p.m., February Bth. : SYDNEY, February 8J The Japanese Consul-General states that he hasreceived no 'information,; official or otherwise, about the seizure of plans. He iSj ihoweyer, to surmise that' the pawing?" referred to were Nishikawa and Kanematsu..' The former visited Austin ha as the representative of"the Foreign Trade Association of Kobe to make enquiries as to harbour administration in Syd- i ney with a.view to applying-his experiences to improving the /administration of Kobi. Kanematsu is a well laiown merchant with a branch .house at .Sydney. . Nishikawu was given every, ..facility!; bv the Sydney Harbour Trust to inspect their methods, and received plans which may have" occasioned a mistake "by the Customs official. It was a ridicujors idea to eav they were fortification plans. On the * others tke Harbour Trust officials are emphatic that- ilo. "plans ."were "supplied, exquite impossible to be mistaken for ' defence . plans. •
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12899, 9 February 1906, Page 5
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159THE JAPANESE SPY STORY. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12899, 9 February 1906, Page 5
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