Crew, Passengers Taken to Police Headquarters Moscow, Mar. 17, Another Soviet steamer, the Kuznetskstrol, has been delained by the Japanese at Hakodate in Hekkido, sine last Wednesday and some of the clew imprisoned, accord-Ing to messages received here.
It Is reported that the crew and the passengers of the Kuznetskstroi were taken to police headquarters and that the Japanese "want 10 Jdetain the Soviet Russians in order:
Washington, Mar. 14.
Hearings on the proposed reciprocal trade pact with Great Britain opened to-day' before the Senate committee investigating reciprocal trade treaties, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary State, in a lotter to Republican Con-pressmen of the New Enyland states warned that the suspension or nellie fication of the Government's reciprocal trade policy would be blunder" and would result crease of world tension. Repu Congressmen have opposed the Administration's conclusion of reciprocal trade pacts with foreign Powers—United Press. exchange them for the Japanese imprisoned in Russia for' alleged spying."
The first Soviet steamer to be held by the Japanese was the Kuznestroy. The arrest of 35 members of the crew and 37 passengers aroused a [storm of protest in Viadivostock.
The Japanese alleged that the vessel had entered the fortified zone in the Tsugaru Straits, but Soviet [sources claimed that the ship only: jealled at Hakodate for bunkeri
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