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Show Cameras Bai'red in Japan. To use a camera In the southern island towns means its polite but Immediate Im-mediate confiscation and a punishment by fine. By great courtesy, a display of passports, and a proper degree of self-reproach for having Ignorantly disobeyed dis-obeyed the laws, you may, at the end of twenty-four hours, secure the return of the camera, minus tho roll of films. ' So strict is the camera regulation at fortified ports, that an English lady who took a picture of the captain on the bridge of one-of the vessels In the harbor of MoJI, was approached, sev-oi sev-oi al hours later, by a member of the harbor police, and asked to deliver up her camera. Protests wero useless, and the camera was taken ashore, the films probably developed, as they were never returned, and tho camera was sent back the following day. On another occasion, a traveler who opened up a small pocket camera in the 'Streets of Shimonosokl, wns promptly piloted to the station-house, violently protesting he had done no wrong, and that he had not attempted to make any photographs of fortifications nor soldiers. sol-diers. The diminutive and quiet captain cap-tain of police, who spoke English brokenly, bro-kenly, remarked, solemnly, "We will see," and the tourist waited four hours while they saw. At the expiration of this time he returned and said, "What you said was true, but we shall, notwithstanding, not-withstanding, be obliged to punish you with the extreme severity of the law In this case. You have .photographed no fortifications or soldiers, but you have committed a crime" and. while the trembling culprit blanched In terror, he finished "and your fine will be SO sen" (40 cents) William Dinwiddle, In Harper's Har-per's Weekly. |