The Archive · 1939

Charges Not Stated

The Ada, which left Shanghai 8 am, on January 20, with a ear ko of diesel oil, several hundred empty iron drums," serap iron, zine sheots and wax bound for de ied only one for Steen ner Nor-

According to reports which reached the owner, the Ada was seized by unidentified Jupanese destroyer fae she was about to pull into. the port of Wenchow, The Japanese flag was subsequently hoisted, the reports continued and she was taken to an nkeown port A Portuguese vessel was also stopped and searched but allowed to proceed, the reports added, and me Vostigators, sent to Wenchow by the owners of the Ada, were informed by the crews of several Junks, at the scene of the seiaire, that the Ada was towed away.

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