Show PRISONERS RELEASED americans taken from japanese ves sets held by russians victoria B C july 9 A dispatch from japan states that three americans one british and one japanese sailor who were for sixteen months ai vladivostok have returned after being released one of the americans was loaded with chains while in confinement they members of the crow of the japanese sealing schooner which was sunk by russian cruisers from vladivostok oft in 1903 the japanese government has enacted legislation for the protection of fur seals specifying close areas and close seasons for fur seals and sea otter and also restricting the nature of the hunting boats and apparatus as well as the method of hunting the ordinance also prohibits the killing of animals under a specified ago limit came into force at tho commencement of the month |