Japanese Not Allowed To

Land At Pt. Moresby

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, July 25.

PERMISSION was refused last week for a number of Japanese from the Japanese trading vessel “Takachiho Maru” to land in Port Moresby to wait for another vessel.

Before she arrived to unload cargo for Steamships Trading Co., Ltd., a wireless message was received from the ship re questing that several Japanese be per mitted to land and stay until the arrival of the Dutch steamer from Sydney. The travellers were not allowed to land in Port Moresby, but it is understood that the men and the crew were permitted to “stretch their legs” at Napa Napa, across the harbour from the town.

Cargo was unloaded from the “Taka chiho Maru” the day she arrived and she left port for Noumea at mid-day the next, the 22nd.