a stream ship dai-ni tatsumaru , carrying 49 boxes of firearms , 40 boxes of ammunition and coal , etc . ordered by a portuguese weapons merchant in macao , left kobe , was captured by four patrol boats of 拱北関 , qing in the water area before macao , deprived of the japanese (rising sun ) flag and taken to guangdong , on a charge of smuggling arms . 澳門のポルトガル人銃砲商が発注した銃器94函、弾薬40函及び石炭等を積載して神戸を出た汽船第二辰丸は、澳門前面の水域において清国拱北関の巡視船四隻に武器密輸の嫌疑で拿捕され、日章旗を撤去、広東に廻航された。