Tokyo, Aug. 8.
Gaimusho officials to-day began to draft a protest against the detention of five Japanese fishing trawlers by Soviet authorities in Kamchatka. 'The ships, which returned to-day to Hokkaido' from Petropaviovsk, were accused of plying their trade in Soviet territorial waters, and fined }300 roubles each by the Soviet Court Petropaviovsk—Domel. discovered a quantity of opium two days ago in the side of a car which they had been repairing. Quarrelling over the division of the find, they started to fight for it, with the result that the police had to be called in, Learning of the cause of the Aght, the Police arrested all the workers and confiscated the opium, valued at over $10,000, sold "You had better repair it yourself' Elsewhere, complete indifference to my obvious trouble was evidenced by motorists 1 so
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