JAPANESE SHIP SUNK
MINE HIT OFF KOBE DEATHROLL NEARLY 6000 (10 a.m.) OSAKA. Oct. 9. The passenger ship Muroto .carrying 6000 Japanese struck a mine and sank off Kobe on Sunday, reports the Domei News Agency. A rescue boat was despatched immediately, but only 180 passengers were picked up. All the others are feared to have been lost. The Muroto was the first ship to sail on the Osaka-Beppu run since the end of the war. Super-Fortresses heavily mined the Inland Sea in the last months of the war, virtually halting shipping.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21840, 10 October 1945, Page 5
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