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LINER NANKING CAPTURED JOURNEY FROM AUSTRALIA TO INDIA Sydney, June 23. After several months, news has been received that the liner Nanking, 7131 tons ,was captured and taken to Japan With her 112 passengers unhurt. She was attacked by an enemy raider in the Indian Ocean while on her way from Sydney to India. Large proportions of the Nanking’s passengers were British women with children on their way to join their husbands in India. The ship’s complement of 150, comprised Australian officers with coloured seamen. For months the only information received here was that the Nanking had been able to transmit only one brief message, “Abandoning ship,” and it was feared that she had been sunk. Before the war the Nanking was a popular tourist ship trading between Australia. China and Japan.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 24 June 1943, Page 5
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