The Archive · 1914

The Suwa Maru in Penang

We are courteously informed by the manager of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha that the following telegrams have been received in response to inquiries made by him with regard to the company's str. Suwa Maru, which is carrying a contingent of Shanghai volunteers Telegram received from the Head Office Tokio at 5.20 p.m. on Octo ber 31: "Suwa Maru arrived safe ly at Penang on October 29; now being detained there."

Telegram from the cor.pany's Singapore agents received 07 Sunday: "Kitano Maru is at Colombo. Suwa Maru, we understand, is at Penang where she is detained by instructions from Tokio. No news of a Japanese steamer being sunk."

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