Tientsin, July 3.
Charged with "using insulting language to Japanese soldiers" a British subject has been detained by the Japanese gendarmerie in Tientsin, according to a Japanese spokesman at this morning's press conference.
The Briton said to have identified himself as Mr. E. T. Edwards, Chief Engineer of the s. Yochow, owned by Messrs, Butterfield & Swire, the spokesman declared, was taken into custody by the Japanese gendarmerie at 9.10 last night in Woodrow Wilson Street, in the ex-German Concession.
A visit to the Yochow by Reuter this morning elicited the information that they did not have a man named E. T. Edwards aboard, but that the Second Officer, Edward Theodore Grifths, had been missing since last night.
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