The Archive · 1941

Japanese Ship

Six persons, including the captain and crew of a small 100-ton cargo best plying between Nobeoka, in Miyazaki Prefecture, across the Straits of Korea to Reisui, Korea, were saved on Saturday by the Myoko Maru. Japanese freighter of the Toa Kaiun Kaisha on the Moji Shanghai run, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterday morning.

The six seamen aboard the ill-fated vessel, which sank after being buffetted by rough seas, were brought 4o Shanghai. The 100-ton boat, which was sailing at a point about 30 miles south-west of Tsushima Island, in the mie became entangled in the pro-Straits of Korea, was disabled when a

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Captain Hamada, skipper of the small ship, signalled to two vessels which passed near the spot

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