The ridiculous extent to which the] Japanese Police occasionally suffer] from that dread disease, known amongst, foreigners in Japan as] "spy-itis", hag again been made] manifest ig the result of the arrest lof two American school boys, Avery Thompson and Benoit MacCrosky. The lads are two out of three debaters from the University of] Oregon who met Japanese college boys ix an oratorical contest in Having won the contest, two of them decided to see more of the country and, when in Nagasaki, imply could' not resist "snapping" some of the very delightful scenery to be found in the vicinity of that old-world town. When they were in [the suburb of Oura, some civilians saw them and rushed to tell the Police. The desk sergeant in turn sent out his reserves and telephoned to all the neighbouring—police stations to have the foreign spies arrested, for Oura is a fortified
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