Three Englishmen. who were officers on the steamer Tainan, which they brought out from England to Japan, were returning as passengers on the Hakata Maru, and on arrival at Hongkong on the 7th inst. had pretty tale to tell. At Moji on New Year's morning, while on deck after wishing the officers of the Hakala a Happy New Year intending to turn in to their berths, they were suddenly set upon by a crowd of Japanese, who Sratally attacked them with knives and other weapons, and inflicted severe bruises and cuts on all thre The victims were unable to assign any reason for the attack beyond a general antipathy to Europeans, They were unable to obtain redress at the Marine Magistrate's Court as the garage took place on a Travel home in Englis Japanese ship at a pane port. Moral: steamers!
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