Sailors Tear Down me Flag, Alleged Tokyo, Jan. 26, A Briton, R. Pickering, aged 1, and a Hollander, A. Yongarius, aged 46, both sailors belonging to the crew of the British Steamer Severnieigh, were each fined ¥.200 at the local. court at Nagoya to-day on a charge of malicious destruction of própertio The two seamen were alleged io have torn down a Japanese flag from a private house at Nagoya at 2 a.m. yesterday. They were immediately arrested by policemen who conducted an investigation into the incid The Home Office, in a state me issued to-day, quotes the opin of the Nagoya police that the. seamen were under. the influence drink at the time.
The Severnleigh to-night,
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