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EX-CAPTIVES DEPART VESSEL OVERCROWDED 200 WOMEN AND CHILDREN (10 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 7. The embarkation of 100 women and 112 children on the demilj.tarised Japanese destroyer Yoizuki was delayed yesterday by Australian officers until they received orders from a higher authority that the embarkation had to be carried out. The Yoizuki afterwards commenced her journey to Formosa, Korea and Japan with 1005 passengers and a crew of 180. The ship, which is 300 ft. long and 28ft. wide, was hopelessly overcrowded before the women went aboard. T■ women and children were ordered below deck into the bare magazine in the stern which could take 70 in reasonable comfort. There were no lavatories and bamboo mats served as beds. After inspecting it, .the embarkation officers communicated wj.th Canberra. The passengers include pregnant women, children aged four weeks and women aged 80 years. Special trains from Cowra, where the recent activities of the Japanese Black Dragon gang were reported, brought the ex-prisoners, including stretcher cases and two madmen.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21964, 7 March 1946, Page 9
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169BOUND FOR JAPAN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21964, 7 March 1946, Page 9
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