Tokyo, Feb, 6. ASTUATED. by a desire to reach an amicable settlement of the incident, the British Government, in a Note dated agreed to surrender to Japan nine of the Germans en from the Asama Maru, announced the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, in the House of Peers today.
The date and place, the Note added, were to be mutually agreed upon. The Japanese Government, Mr. Arita said, was not satisfied with this partial surrender, and would continue to demand delivery of the other 12 Germans, 1
The Foreign Minister announced that in order to eliminate uneasiness on the part of Japanese vessels in the future, the Japanese Government had issued instructions to Japanese shipping companies not to allow passages to persons embodied or suspected to be embodied in armed forces of belligerent Powers.
The attention of the British Government, he added, had been drawn to the measures mentioned. "It is my frm belief," Mr. Arita concluded, "that in the future, occurrence of incidents similar to the Rest Asama Maru will be prevented."
Rest Demanded These guns have "However, the number of men to be returned' being only a portion of those demanded by us, we are by no means satisfied.
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