Tokyo, Nov. 2.
The British freighter Antigone (4,545 tons), the master of which, Captain Beddie McDonald Stephen, got into trouble with the Japanese police because his ship grounded in a fortified zone during a fog, was allowed. to sail from Yokohama this evening. The police gave Capt. Stephen permission to sail for Kobe after he had agreed to sign a promise to pay Y.L750 compensation for damage alleged to have been suffered by fishing nets and shellfish beds when the ship went off its course and grounded near Futtsui, in Chiba Prefecture, on Saturday morning.
The vessel was refloated an hour later by its own power and arrived in Yokohama the same morning, since when Capt. Stephen, who appears to have been suspected of deliberate violation of the Military Secrets Protection Law, has been subjected to 3 gruelling examination.
At the time of the accident the ship.
s en route to Yokohama from Mukatia, in the South Seas, with a ca: go of phosphorous.—Reuter.
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