The "forly-ton Netherlands tug Reinier, property of the Netherlands Harbour Works, which was due to arrive back here on August 17 after a trip to Bocca Tigris, but failed to enter port, is being detained by the Chinese military authorities, at Bocca Tigris, states the Hongkong "Sunday Herald,"
Negotiations are at present _pro-weeding between the owners and: the Chinese authorities for the release of the vessel, the paper states, The owners decline to reveal the reason or the ship being detained, The Reinier, commanded by Cap-ain de Schipper, was towing lighters: jaded with limestone" when de-amed by the Chinese.—Reuter, Mill-workers Charged With Theft Shanghai, Sept. 3.
In the first big criminal case ye heard by the Changchow district court since it was reorganized following the hostilities, six employees of the Da Sheng Cotton Mil, Changchow, were" recently charged by the mill manager with ving misappropriated $40,000 in rash, 25 gold rings, four" pa cold' ear rings, two gold shoes' weighing 60 ounces each, and a quantity of other valuables, Chinese reports said yesterda The defendants were have taken away the val the mill premises when the owners manager of the mill and their families evacuated Changchow during hostilities. Defendants denied the accusations,
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