Hongkong, Feb. 2.
a sequel to the trouble aboard the British steamer Silkworth, which was compelled to return to Hongkong. on January 29, Commander Hole, the Harbour Master, to-day sentenced H, Wakisita, the Japanese quartermaster, to twelve weeks" hard Tabour for assaulting the third officer, A, Sanuki, also a Japanese, The evidence revealed that, after the original dispute between Wakisita and Sanuki, twelve members of the Japanese crew proceeded to the bridge, and that the captain had to produce his revolver owing to their threatening attitude.
n_sentoneing Wakisita, the Har: our Master remarked: "It looks very: much like a mutiny, and the accused seems to have carried that into aotusd The Sitkworth originally ad 9 Chinese crew which refused to rail from Sydney, pleading that the ship was carrying war supplies to Japan, An Austealian crow then worked hei to Dairen, where a Japanese crew Wax taken and the Australians were repatriated.—Reuter.
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