Tokyo, Feb. 5.
With the return of the Hiye Maru to-day from America, where an attempt to blow her up was frustrated by the police, the owners of the vessel, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, announced that there would be no change in the schedule of sailings of N.Y.K. liners for America because they placed "implicit confidence in the American authorities."
The plot to blow up the ship was hed by the polite on January he vessel was moored to Seattle. ing the incident, Capt.
Shinichi master of the Hiye Maru, and Mr. Bin Niiya, the purser, told newspapermen taro Shimada, a steward in the sec-and-cla: cabins, sighted on the morning of January 20 a lifeless naked body on the port side of the liner. and immediately cómmunicated with the water police.
At 105 the same afternoon, a messenger came aboard from the Customs House and said excitedly: "Clock-work bombs had been set stern of the Hiye Maru. They might go off at 1.30, so move the ship to safety."—Reuter.
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