The Archive · 1940

Japanese Ship Searched By French

Mails Said to Have Been Censored at Haiphong

Tokyo, Mar, 7.

The captain of the Bangkok Maru has wirelessed to the head office of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha stating that on Tuesday afternoon, despite a protest from the Japanese Consul, naval authorities in Haiphong inspected the mails which were loaded at Bangkok.

Eighty-eight ordinary, 22 registered letters, and four parcels, most of which' were destined for "Germany, Were confiscated, The Bangkok Maru is due to arrive at Kobe on March 12.—Reuter.

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