Havana, Dec. 26.
Twenty Chinese sailors of the Norwegian freighter, Lady Norse, refused to man the vessel today when they learned that she was loaded with scrap iron destined for Japan.
The officers of the vessel then demanded the aid of the Havana police, who took the men ashore and put them in prison. They are to be deported on board the next Norwegian ship putting in here,—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.