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Show PORTUGUESE RESIDENT OF JAPAK TRIED FOB SELLING SECRETS TO RUSSIANS. YOKOHAMA, Jan. 19. H. B. Collins, a man. of Portuguese blood, but who has long been a resident of Japan, was publicly pub-licly tried today on the charge of disclosing disclos-ing military secrets. The evidence showed that Collins visited Port Arthur and Tien Tain. last year and reclved 1000 yen from Gens. Ogorodinkoff and Dessino, together with a private cipher that he might trans mlt information. Last October Collins wrote from Yokohama, Yoko-hama, detailing the proposed dispatch of Japanese troops, giving their number, their destination and their purpose to Gen. Dessino, but the letten was stopped at Nagasaki. The maximum penalty for the offense Is six years' Imprisonment. The passing of sentence was deferred until January M. |