Voyage Across Pacific to Foreign Correspondents Be Resumed; Chapter Note Inconsistencies in
Of Misfortunes German Attitude Kochi, June 1.
America-bound across the- wide Pacific, the 29-ton Ningpo junk American Legion will resume her checkered. journey tomorrow, Captain John Anderson announced today. The vessel originally started for San Francisco irom Shanghai on April 8.
The junk, the former Taiping, has been here since May 14 as her storm-hutletted hull was being repaired by the Kochi Industrial Ca-operative. This was her second stop in Japan for repairs and the third setback in her adventurous journey.
Carrying a crew of five, including Mrs. John Anderson, plucky wife of the captain, the junk was sighted drifting at a point five miles of Mutoto point, the southernmost pro-mentary of Shikoku, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of May 14. Taken in tow, it was first brought to Urado, a fishing town on Muroto Point, for investigation by the authorities. Later in the evening, the ship was brought here where better repair facilities exist, Leaving Shanghai on April 22, after an unsuccessful start on April 8, the American Legion put into Kataura, in the Kasasuna district in western Kagoshima prefecture, on April 30 for repairs to her auxiliary engine, When these were completed, she set off again on her journey, leaving Kagoshima on May 10.
On May 11, she ram into a violent Storm off Ashizuri Point, Shikoku, "being tossed around by a high wind and heavy seas for two days and two nights.
"When sighted on May 14, the junk was drifting out of control. Capt. John Anderson is an American—Domei.
London, May 31.
'The German volunteers who fought in Spain were given a heroes' welcome on arrival at Hamburg today five- "Strength Through Joy" liners, according to. reports reaching here from that port.
As they sailed up the Elbe, the volunteers saluted Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Air Minister and Chief of the German Air Force, who was aboard the yacht Hamburg: Cheering crowds lined both sides of river, A torpedo-boat flotilla, and the "pocket battleship" Graf von Spee, escorted the liners. Three of General Franco's generals accompanied the volunteers back to Germany. The volunteers later goose-stepped past Field Marshal Goering.
Adüressing the volunteers, Field Marshal Goering announced that the Germans who fought in Spain would participate in a victory parade before Herr Hitler on Tuesday.
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