Tokyo, Aug. 8.
Referring to the refusal of British authorities to let the Japanese liners Kaiju Maru and Hakugin Maru call at Hongkong, a spokesman of the Navy office said it possibly had a connection with the case of the British steamer Fatshan, The Butterfield & Swire Fatshan is plying between Canton and Hongkong.
The spokesman understood she failed to pay stipulated pilotage fees so that pilots at Canton finally denied the steamer their services, thus the Fatshan has been stranded in Canton. Pilotage fees in arrears were reported to amount to several thousand yen.
The spokesman said the affair was quite simple, though there were several distorted versions of it—
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