Tokyo, Feb, 17.
Orders of the Ministry of Railways forbidding Government-owned ferryboats plying between Fusan, Korea, and Shimonoseki from carrying Germans subject to inclusion in the Reich's military forces became the subject of a parliamentary debate here yesterday, Mr. Tsuruhei Matsuno, Minister of Railways, replying to an interpellation in the budgetary committee of the Lower House, said that a notice to that effect had been posted because his department was co-operate ing with the Ministry of Communications in the enforcement of the latter's new regulations.
Mr. Masazo Mogami, a member of the Minseito, who made the interpellation, then said that a German, travelling from Harbin to Mexico, had been embarrassed by the action of the Railways Ministry. The German national had taken up the matter with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo, Mr. Mogami said. The Railways Minister denied knowledge of the affair.—Domei
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