The Archive · 1940

Plague Fails

Ship Passed by Japanese Port Authorfties

Moji, Nov. 29.

The Dairen-Kobe shuttle liner Kit-sunn Maru, 6783 tons, was permitted to enter port today after extensive disinfection by health authorities here.

The vessel has been detained in quarantine since November 25, when the death of Mr. Seigo Hashimoto, 57-year-old Japanese businessman on board the ship aroused the suspicions of port health officials.

After exhaustive tests for black plague which first was suspected as having caused the death of Mr. Hashimoto, negative results were obtained to result in the release of the ship—Damei.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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