250 JAPANESE DROWN WHEN WOODEN FERRY HITS A MINE
(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright) Recd. 12.10 a.m. Tokio, Jan. 28. When a wooden ferry struck a drifting mine off the coast of southern Honshi last night 250 Japanese were drowned. The only Allied personnel aboard —two British and one Australian attached to the Kobe forces—were among about 100 rescued..
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Wanganui Chronicle, 29 January 1948, Page 5
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