Tokyo, Mar. 8.
Japan is studying the legal aspects of the seizure of mail destined for Germany from the O.SK. liner Bangkok Maru at Haiphong on Tuesday before deciding what action will be taken, the Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Yakichiro Suma, told the press here today.
Mr. Suma said he felt the case was "more or less similar" to the British seizures of American mails, against which the United States has protested. He said French naval officials at Haiphong refused to give the Bangkok Maru receipts for the seized mail.
The French authorities confiscated letters and parcels aboard the steamer which were en route to Germany by way of Kobe.
It was reported last night that the French authorities at Haiphong had notified the captain of the Bangkok Maru that similar examinations of mails destined for Germany would be carried out regularly in the future—United Press.
New York, Mar. 8, A British ruse which enabled the Queen Elizabeth to escape Nazi planes was revealed today by a member of the crew who asked that his name be withheld. Other members of the crew said that they threatened to strike but the strike never materialized as they were promised a bonus.
Fully aware that a keen watch on the movements of the 85,000-ton liner was being made by German agents, British authorities purposely prepared Southampton as the port from which the Queen Elizabeth was to sail to New York, a member of the crew said, The authorities also whispered that the Queen Elizabeth was to dock at Southampton. German planes, presumably acting on the "information," cruised in the vicinity resulting in the attack on the Domala, which was badly bombed and machine-gunned, One hundred and nine persons were killed in the attack on the Domala.
The informant told the United Press that for the "first twelve hours we were accompanied by four destroyers and two bombers, after which we did not see another ship until we reached America. There is absolutely no ammunition aboard, not even a slingshot.
Members of the crew disclosed that the captain promised them £30 bonus when they threatened to strike at Greenock—United Press.
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