Tokyo, Feb. 2 Nine members of the crew of the Korean fishing boat "Taiko Mar [seized on June 4 last year while fishing off Littoral province in 'Siberia were released on January 31 by Soviet authorities, according to information reaching' here today. The men immediately took passage Vladivostok on board. the ferry boat Siberia Maru for Seishin, Korea.
Originally fined 50 roubles each on charges of violation of Soviet terr!- torial waters and poaching, the men were released after the Soviet autho The Navy Department consequently is not disturbed by preseat discussion of the possible granting of independ fence to Puerto Rice since the United States would ask the retention of naval and utr station rights under an to that which the Guantanamo base in Cuba.
Small groups of Puerto Ricans have agitated for a long time for political independence, and a Puerto Rican Independence bill hes occasionally been introduced in Congress. present, however, no such legislation ponding.
Peurto Rice has a territorial status with Toco autonomy under the gen-Jeral jurisdiction of the United States Congress and President. However, JCongress conceivably could grant Puerto Independence if it so desited—United Press,
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