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 Butter field & Swire Fatshan is plying between Canton and Hongkong.
The spokesman understood she lod to pay stipulated pilotage fees that pilots at Canton finally denied the steamer their services, thus. the Fatshan has been stranded Canton. Pilotage fees in arrears were reported to amount to several thousand yen, "The spokes nan said the affair was quite simple. though there were Several distorted versions of it—
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