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Seizure by the Japanese of Mr. Moss, and His Treatment by the Consul-General
Seizure by the Japanese of Mr Moss and His Treatment by the ConsulGeneral Author:Michael Moss General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1863 Original Publisher: W. Ridgway Subjects: Japan Great Britain British Diplomatic and consular service History / General History / Europe / Great Britain History / Asia / Japan Political Science / International Relations / General Political Science / In... more »ternational Relations / Diplomacy Travel / Asia / Japan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: JAPANESE DENY KNOWLEDGE OF MY CAPTURE. 21 The community of Yokohama hearing the news of the affray, and finding that I had left home the previous afternoon and was still absent, became persuaded that I was the missing- man. As evening approached, the friends, who had received my letters written from Shenobarar, asking them to dine with me that day, came at the hour appointed. Finding me still absent, their doubts as to my fate then became conclusive, the more so as no other foreigner was missing from the small settlement. Fearing the danger of delay, they urged on the Consul the necessity for adopting at once some steps to try and discover where I was held. Their general belief seems to have been, that I was a prisoner in the hands of the Japanese. The Consul appears to have gained some information or clue, and believed I was being detained at their prison: the Japanese authorities denied that such was the fact, and he urged that the Governor should accompany him in a search over the prison. This was strenuously opposed, and his right of search denied him. The Consul losing all faith ife their representations, and convinced that such secrecy boded danger to one in their power, now determined to effect by display of power, and if necessity compelled, to demand by force, that which had been re...« less