"The matter {s being given con sideration." That ts all that the Jepanese "authorities would say on November 20° with regard toa protest which has been lodged by the acting German Consul-General with the Japanese Consul-General against the action of the crew of the Japanese gunboat Soto in seizing two German tugs lying at the French= owned Kiousin Docks above the boom and proceeding to haul down the German flags flying "at their mastheads at the time of the seizure. There is reason to believe that the Japanese intend to use the tugs for military purposes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.