Member of Crew of Suspected Smuggler Wounded Tientsin, Feb, 3.
Japanese consular and naval off dals here were reported to-day by the Kokutsu News Agency to be studying reports on the alleged attack by a Chinese Customs cruiser, upon a five ton Japanese ship off Tsingtao on the night of January 29. ship's crew, the news agency asserted, was wounded on the leg by a bullet fired from the pursuing yesso).
The ship, a fishing trawler belong: ing to the Tsingtao Marine Products Nd, was alleged to have been fired upon at 11 ofelock at night, assed off Hsiao Kung Island, on its way to Tsingtao from Dairen.
The wounded man, the agency said, will have to remain under medical care for two months, "The Japaneee vessel was suspected, according to the Kokutsu report, of being a smuggler—Domel,
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