"Food is extremely scarce in Germany and the rationing system began immediately after war was declared, which was about a fortnight after we arrived in Hamburg," the spokesman for the group stated.
The seamen had been employed by German shipping firms with services to the Far East and they had been taken on in Shanghai in June last year. The boatswain and a crew of Chinese seamen went aboard the German steamer Oder and went to Japan where cargo was loaded but the ship was held up for some time. Finally she set sail for Hamburg, the boatswain narrated, and the Oder arrived in that German port on August iden
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