NEWS OF WAR KEPT FROM PASSENGERS
i JAPANESE LINFR IN THE PACIFIC AKRIY AL IX SYDNEY EIGHT DAYS OVERDI I • <Rccd. 9.20 p.m.) Sydn-v. Aug. 10. : News of the threatening situation in the Pacific was kept fiom the passengers in the Japanese liner Kasima Maru, whicli reached Sydney on Saturday, eight days overdue. The passengers said the liner turned back off the coast of New Guinea and then cruised in a circle for three days and lay at anchor for four more. It was blacked out and all Japanese signs were removed. The captain informed them he was awaiting instructions from Tokio. During this time three Dutch planes flew overhead anti a party from a Dutch destroyer boarded the liner. News of th" war was eagerly sought by tlie passengers on arrival in Sydney. They said all the news bulletins on the liner were from German sources, and, according to these, Russia's collapse was imminent The passengers included 53 Poles, who escaped across Russia to Japan after the Nazi invasion. One Pole travelled as a stowaway.—U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 187, 11 August 1941, Page 6
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