Singapore, Feb. 19.
Rear Admiral Julius C. Townsend, commander of the three American cruisers now visiting Singapore, today refused to permit basketball Ships Stopped At Mouth of Pearl River Hongkong. Feb, 5.
Seven ships, most" of them British, were' held up at the mouth' of the Pear! River thi morning and boarded by Japanese marines, who went alongside in pinnaces from Japanese warships. The marines warned the captains of the ships that the four Japanese warships which were lying In the vicinity might at any moment start a bombardment of the Bocca Tigris forts. Six of the ships proceeded 0° Hongkong, but "the seventh went up river, making bhar way without Ineldent.—Reuter.
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