press pass issued by the com-"of the Japanese Third Fleet to Mr, V. F. Meisling, "North-China Daily News" reporter, has been suspended by the Japanese Naval authorities ponding their investigation into an incident, on Sunday, involving him and another foreigner, Japanese reservists and Chinese coolies unloading scrap-iron in the Wayside district under the direction of the reservists, Mr, Meisling is an American.
A roll of film, in which five exposure had been made, was taken from Mr. Meisling's camera by the reservists after he had taken a picture of the unloading operations, at an open piece of ground in East Seward Road. No part of the film, on which nothing of a military nature had been recorded, had been returned up to a late hour Jast night.
The pass was suspended, it was explained, because publicity given the case and the questions asked about the matter at Monday's Japanese press conference made the Naval authorities doubt Mr, Afeisling's fit-mess to hold such a pass. It would be decided upon independent investigation whether: the pass would be permanently cancelled.
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