Nov. 2.
'HARACTERIZED by shipping circles as a most extraordinary episode and a flagrant violation of the neutral status of the port of Shanghai, the seizure of the Yugoslav vessel Tomislav by Italian marines and crew members of the Conte Verde on Friday! was followed yesterday by startling developments.
Tt was learned that the Italians had indulged in a bacchanalian orgy aboard, considerably depleting the vessel's wine stock, invaded the engine room through the skylights presumably to oil the machinery and get the ship under way, after a futile attempt to secure the keys from the chief engineer.
'A member of the ship's crew later reported to the captain ashore, that the marines had withdrawn from the ship, A guard from the Conte Verde and a "new captain" of the commandeered vessel remained on. board.
Hurling defiance at taw and order the Halians were said to have usin the powers of the River Police who were responsible for maintenance of order in' port and had exhibited complete Inditterence and contempt fugus disregard for port regulations.
Halians claims that the vessel hod been pilrehased by the Lloyd Triestino, In Justifeation of their aetio were given the lie after a verse tion of the circumstances of the ea The invasion of the vessel on Frid was the second occasion when the Tlallans forcibly boarded the ship on a flimsy claim of ownership. which they had not sought to enforce legally, but by dint of military. prowess.
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