Forty-eight Japanese fishermen who are alleged to have been arrested by agents of the Soviet Secret Police, last year, returned to Tsuruga yesterday afternoon in the Amakusa Maru from Vladivostok. They are' stated to have been arrested in the Soviet Maritime Province on September 13 and October 27 last year, and their boats are said to have been deta ed, It is further reported here that the fishermen were all ined by the Soviet authorities for alleged violation of Soviet territorial waters. They were met at the pier on arrival here yes terday by their families, relatives They are being accommodated for the time being by the Japanese water police authorities at Tsuruga, who are hearing reports from them on their examination by the Soviet authorities at Viadivostok—Reuter, Shanghai-Kobe Money Deals Uncovered Tokyo, Mar. 11.
Thirty Indians and Syrians in Kobe were under arrest there today for legal purchases of rupees.
Leaders of the group, "Lalchand Shahani and Kanchand' Hira, were Jaccused of buying rupees since last November from more than twenty Indian and Syrian traders in Kobe at a rate of ¥.130 per rupee. The Fupees were mailed to accomplices in Shanghai who exchanged them for Japanese notes at rates of from ¥.1.00 to'¥2. The nolos then were mailed. to Kobe, according to the police investigation—Domel.
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