Emanuel Kremla, 16, and Teddy Connell, 15, were amongst those who arrived in the s. Suwa Maru, when that ship entered port from Japan yesterday after their intended trip to Mexico as stowaways in one of the lifeboats of the s, Anna Maersk, ended behind the bars of a detention cell in Kobe.
"We had a lot of fun," shid one of ihe youngsters, and had hoped to enter Mexico, where we had been iold, many Russians had settled and were doing well Had it not been for the storm which the s. Anna Maersk encountered between Shanghai and Japan, I dare say that we would have reached our destination.'
Cordell and Petrof both claim British nationality whilst Kremla is said to be a Czechoslovakian. He also has the distinction of being the only member of the trio ever to have worked before.
Asked as to what they were going to do, now that they found themselves back in Shanghai, the boy agreed that they would look for jo although' they thought it hopel: find any. They said that they were going to sleep on launches tied up prior to undertaking fair adven: along the Bund, as they had done
turous journey which was th land them where they had started.
Upon their arrival the Japanese Consular Police received them at the wharf but the boys were released soon afterwards, being given $1 each "to keep them out of getting into further trouble."
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