Tokyo, June 15 Japanese efforts to stop smuggling of Chinese agitators from the main-iand to Kulangsu were being frustrated by British vessels, according to a press message from Amoy today.
The dispatch said the Yangtaishan, a vessel owned by the Asiatic Petroleum Company, a British concern, had been detected breaking through the Japanese blockade and smuggling Chinese or goods from Sungsu on the mainland to the International Settlement.
Japanese authorities were likely to take prompt action in the matter, according to the message.
Meanwhile, Rear-Admiral Masao Kanazawa, Chief of the Publicity Bureau of the Navy Office, declared here today that the Japanese auth: orities were firmly determined (o effect an amicable settlement of the Kulangsu question.
The situation at Kulangsu had been temporarily pushed into the background, he said. by developments at Tientsin, but the question was not yet settled.
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