The Archive · 1939

Bokuyo Maru Survivors Reach Yokohama

Yokohama, July 24.

On schedule, after the harrowing experience of fieeing a burning ship' and two transfers on the high seas, 209 passengers and members of the crew of the ill-fated Nippon 'Yusen Kaisha Bokuyo Maru arrived here today aboard' the "Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Florida Mara. 'They were saved from the blazing liner on July. 18 by the American tanker Tidewater Associated at a point 1000 miles from the shores of Japan. 'Three persons, three-year-old child, a stewardess and an engineer, lost' their lives. in the mishap. The Bokuyo Maru hed been due here today.—Domel

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