THE KINSEN MARU
THIRTEEN SURVIVORS
FOUNDERING CONFIRMED
SHIP'S BOAT PICKED UP
L'nlted Press' Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. • (Received March 17, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. 'i Thirteen survivors of tho Kinsen Maru were rescued at midnight by the Hide Maru, one of the search ships. A wireless message to that effect was sent by the captain of the Hide Maru to the Deputy-Director of Navigation for Queensland. It was meagre information, adding only that tho Kinsen Maru sank at one .in the morning on Tuesday, roughly 403 miles east of Mackay. " ' A second wireless message read: — "Second boat not been sighted yet." This indicates that the survivors have given information concerning at least one of the other boats with the crew.
An earlier message stated that three vessels were searching for the missing Japanese tramp steamer Kinsen Maru. The scope of the search had ' been widened by 200 miles.
The shipping authorities have not given up hope of finding the crew, which- numbered thirtyeight, all Japanese.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 7
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166THE KINSEN MARU Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 7
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