Show Will ill RELEASE THE TATU TATSU MARU Chinese Customs Cruisers Get Hold of the Wrong Vessel Pekin March 1 It is announced that the Chinese government will surrender surrender the Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru which was seized on Feb 7 by the Chi Chinese Chinese Chinese nese customs cruisers outside of Macao while unloading a large consignment of rifles and ammunition the rifles num numbering numbering numbering bering several thousand It was originally charged that thai th t an at attempt attempt attempt tempt was being made to bring Tiring war supplies into China for revolutionists The statement is made by officials in the Chinese government that a con conspiracy conspiracy Is on foot to import seven or eight thousand rifles and ammunition and the government believes that the munitions on the Tatsu Maru were intended for rebels on the Ton Tonking Tonking king border but It has not been able to prove the act of ot smuggling A dispatch from Tokio yesterday stated that the Japanese government was maintaining a determined attitude with regard to the seizure by the Chi Chinese Chinese nese of the Tatus Maru and that it would demand both an apology and an indemnity from China It was stated also in this dispatch that the Chinese foreign office wished to submit the entire question to o a mixed court To this th however the Japanese govern government government ment meat would not consent until the ves yes vessel vessel sel set was first released The Tokio statement declared that the Tatsu Maru was regularly cleared from Kobe with a consignment of ot arms anns and ammunition for Macao and that the Portuguese minister at Pekin sup supported supported supported ported the contention of ot the Japanese minister of ot foreign affairs that hat the ves yes vessel vessel sel set was seized In Portuguese waters The armored cruiser sailed on Friday from Shanghai for Hong Kong her object being understood to be the Investigation of the seizure of ot the Tatsu Maru |