JAPANESE WOMEN HELD

Immigration Inspectors Detain Four on the Kanagawa Awaiting Inspection.

Three Japanese women will be deported to Japan by local United States immigration officers unless their prospective husbands reach Seattle from California the coming week. One woman claims to be engaged to a man in Los Angeles; another says her husband is a business man at Sacramento, and the third declares she is to be married upon her arrival at Alameda.

The inspectors procured the names of the three men and wired them at their respective cities. If they come to Seattle and satisfy the officers that they did not intend to violate the immigration laws by importing Japanese women, they will be permitted to take their wives off the Kanagawa Maru.

Altogether the immigration inspectors have held up four women passengers on the Kanagawa. The fourth has acted in a suspicious manner and the inspectors believe she has come over on the Kanagawa to meet Japanese of unsavory reputation. Her case is under investigation, and a board of special inquiry will be held to determine whether she shall be permitted to remain in this country.