In response to questions regarding the recent stopping and searching of vessels flying flags of Third Power nationals, the naval spokesman maintained that the Japanese reserved [that right, inasmuch as they had! outlined that policy in a Note about! seventeen months because they believed that Chinese at times used foreign flags on chips and junks.
These searches were not unusual land the large number of recent jsearcbings had no connection with the fact that the Japanese have given up their cherter rights to a large number of foreign-owned ships.
The s, Ada, Hungarian-owned is being detained in Amoy by the Japanese Navy—not the Customs—[fb permit investigation of her status jand because of other unmentioned factors. it was intimated that most of the incidents had happened outside China's territorial waters. It was replied, "we believe inside.'
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