Letters Not Relating to Military Affairs Unwanted Tokyo, Mar. 14.
Moving to placate Japan over the mail censorship issue, French authorities were understood here today to have decided to return a portion of the mail seized by them aboard the Osaka Shosen Kaisha s. Bangkok Maru at Haiphong on March 5.
This reported French decision, dispatches reaching the Foreign Office from Paris and Hanco said, was reached on Tuesday.
The French authorities were stated to have announced that they would restore to the Japanese authorities all seized mail which did not contain information of a military character.
Released after being examined by French Indo-China Naval Authorities at Haiphong, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha s. Saigon Maru was on her way to Japan today, according to a message received by the company's head offices here—Domei.
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