Punished at Formosa: Alleged Engine Trouble Tathoku, Oct, 16.
Coptsin Dmitr! Danilov, of the Soviet freighter Terek, was fined ¥.1800 to-day by the local court for an legal attempt to enter naval port, inthe Peécadores, on August. 16, The 3,500-ton ship, carrying a crew of 35, was on Ils way from Viadivostok to Singapore with a cargo of wheat, when she attempted to enter Mako. The vessel was stopped by a mine-layer and detained, while the captain was subjected to an all-night examination.
The captain claimed that serious engine trouble forced him to seck refuge in the nearest port, but this was denied by the Mako gendarmerie, Both the local and the Tokyo naval, authorities took "a very serious view" of the matter, the court. was
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