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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1989
ICHINESE TAKEN OFF THE
KINSHAN DURING TRIP
DOWN TO HONG KONG
PASSENGERS on board the s.s. Kinshan were shocked and surprised yesterday morning when at Bocca Tigris the Japanese pilot, appar- ently undertaking the duties of law officer, ar- rested five Chinese and took them with him on the launch which was sent out to take him off the British vessel, which was proceeding from Canton to Hong Kong.
It is learned that the pilot, at- tached to the Japanese navý, Can- brought the ship down from ton. Nothing unusual happened until Bocca. Tigris, was reached when the pilot was about to leave the ship.
Five Chinese were then arrested and taken off the ship and placed on a Japanese launch which sent out to pick up the pilot.
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The reason for the arrest and iB detention of the five Chinese unknown, but according to rumours which were later circulated board the vessel, the men were accused of being "stowaways."
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SOVIET GESTURE
Moscow, To-day The Soviet Government has de clded to withdraw its representa- tive from the London non-inter- vention committee in view of the. fact that "the committee has long ceased functioning and its exis-- tenco has become, meaningless."
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There is a serious shortage of coal and charcoal in Tokyo. Dealers have declared, they have no supplies for householders, even at prices three times as high- as those ruling two seasons ago.
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Various reasons were given, for the, shortage, one being that bad snowstorms in Northern Japan had held up supplies from the Hokkaido mines and another, and wilder ver- eion, that the Japanese Naval au- sum-thorities have commandeered all
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Convention: Rumour-mongers add- Tientsin Pukow Railway line, be-ed that the Japanese fleet was be- tween the Lunghai Railway and ing concentrated in northern waters,
prepared for all eventualities. the Yangtse River.
Anyhow, many Tokyo families *This region has for the last 18 had to forego their nightly baths months been completely outside the for a while, or take them cold. region of the Japanese operations There was not even enough coal for and was passed only occasionally for house-heating purposes. by relatively small detachments of Japanese troops.,
A communique issued by the Japanoso military and naval au- thorities here announces that army units and marines began joint ac tion with the aim of clearing the region of guerilla units concen- trated here.
Japanese troops were landed in the region of Haichow, the cistern
The local gharcoal dealers had exhausted their supply early in the year, and much distress was caused, when retailers ran out of local in Tokyo, Yokohama and the neigh bourhood-Reuter,
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torminus of the Lunghal Rallway, MIND FOR MOMENT
and began thoir advance in close co-operation with other units that had boon despatched thereby rallway.
* With the active support of the Japanese Bir force, JapanÓSA troops succeeded in occupying an extensive area. They captured the town Huaiyin on the Groat Canal Trans-Ocean
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