The Japanese liner Bokuyo Maru, of 8610-tons, en route from Los Angeles to Yokohama, io sn fire in mid-Pacific. She has 110 passengers, and a crew of 104, and is carrying a cargo of Chilean nitrate.
In great secrecy, the British Government is carrying out elaborate and costly plans to safeguard from air attack Britains oil supplies, on which the mobility of the Fleet, the Royal Air Force and the Army depends.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4812, 19 July 1939, Page 1
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