Armed naval launches seized several Japanese Ashing boats operating, in San Diego harbour in the dead of night without lights." Destroyers ppatrolied the coast of southern Call: fornia and visitors to ships anchored the harbour, were searched before cing allowed to proceed abroad. was reported that the three letters addressed to Japanese and bearing Japanese stamps which were seized aboard the Tatsuta Maru prior to that vessel's departure for Japan. were confiscated at the request of the Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. Valentine Hammack, Assistant United States Attorney General, said og far as he knew "there is nothing. in the letters to indicate a spy plot." The letters, he said, could not be opened for at least two months because "it takes that much time to complete the condemnation proceedings."—United Press,
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