Another happy ending is reported the case of a 15-year-old schoolboy, V. Burshansky, who was captured by bandits but. released un= /harmed because they considered him "unsuitable, Netherlands Oil Tanker Now Not to Be Confiscated Taihoku, June, 10.
Reversing a decision of the Takao branch of the Taihoku High Court, the District Court of Appeals here to-day reduced to ¥.500 the fine imposed on Capt, J. Z. Aaling, master of the Netherlands all tanker Juno, on charge of violating the Japanese Shipping Law.
'Judge Masao Yamawaki, presiding also voided the confiscation ordi Captain Aaling appealed against th sentence imposed by the lower court at Takao on April 27, which was 2 fine of ¥2,000 and the' confiscation of the tanker.
'The ship, a, 2,848-ton tanker, on April 7, was found in the forlifed zone near Mako, in the Pescadores, and was brought, to Takao under escort of a Japanese destroyer on April 10, on suspicion of having been engaged' in espionage. Capt, Aaling pleaded that rough weather had forced him to seek shelter in the forbidden zone—Reuter, Crew Agal In Ditheulties Takao, June 16.
The captain and crew of the Neth-errands oiltanker Juno are in diffi culties again, They "are undergoing a fresh stringent examination as a result of the evidence given by the crew of a fishing boat that they saw the members of the crew taking sounding off the Pescadores prior to Apri Taha captain of the vessel was cently fined for "violation of the shipping law." The alleged offence occurred on April 7, when the Juno was caught in a typhoon and took shelter in a bay in the Pescadore: in the forrited zone—Reuter.
Burshansky, who had been abducted by three Chinese gangsters, was driven to a small house in one of the suburbs." When the bandits questioned him, they found that they had captured the wrong person, a their intended victim' was a boy named Doroshenko, whose father had that day received $14,000 from the Chinese Eastern Railway, Burshansky produced his identifica tion papers, which he was carrying. with him at the time, and was driven Dback to town and released—Reuter.
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