BERTHS CANCELLED
KASIMA MARU'S LAST TRIP Rec. 11 a.m. SYDNEY, this day. The Japanese liner Kasima Maru sailed yesterday with 116 passengers, severing the last shipping link between Australia and Japan. The majority of the passengers were Japanese business men, who expressed deep regret at having to return home, leav'ng behind all they possessed but what they stood up in. One Japanese, Mr. S. Fuse, said he had to thank Australia for giving him his wife, who happened to be a New Zealander. Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of their marriage.
It has been revealed that 19 Japanese business men cancelled their passages at the last minute in the belief that the tension involving 1 their counity- had eaeexL
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 7
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119BERTHS CANCELLED Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 7
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