JAPS. IN THE PACIFIC.
SUPPOSED COLONY AT CHRISTMAS ISLAND. A sensation has been created at Funning Island by the action of the- British gunboat Algerine in detaining the Japanese schooner Togo Ma-ru. The detention of this vessel was brought about in consequence of a, report that it had conveyed a number of Japanese to Christmas Island. The officers of the .Japanese ship at first disclaimed that- they had landed any of their countrymen at Christmas Island, hut under bloser examination tlie'y admitted that they had placed 13 Japanese on the island. It is not yet known whether the object of the expedition to Christmas Island was the establishment of a Japanese colony there. . ' The Algerine is standing by, and developments are anxiously awaited.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3167, 13 March 1911, Page 5
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123JAPS. IN THE PACIFIC. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3167, 13 March 1911, Page 5
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