Detained Rice Will be Returned to Owners 'The Swatow controversy, whicn, for a time, threatened to' develop into an international dispute major proportions, was settled be-{ween the Chinese authorities in the southern port, Rengo learned on Tuesday, Oct. 15, from local consular officials, The dispute arose when the Chinese authorities in Swatow detained Japanese and Formosan rice on the round that it had evaded payment of taxes. Japanese officials held. that the rice was exempt from taxation, since it belonged to. persons) enjoying extraterritorial privileges.
Japanese destroyers were dispatched to Swatow when the Chinese {officials persisted in their refusal to release the detained rice.
Under the terms of the settlement, the rice will be returned to. tts owners, "The local settlement of the dispute! in no way prejudices future negotia-
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