Word: asama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts afterwards. Last week Japan chose to let the end of her trade treaty with the U. S. - a really serious incident - pass with hardly an official sigh but spilled a hot lava of diplomatic hate on Great Britain over a comparatively microscopic incident - the stopping of the liner Asama Maru by a British cruiser while 21 German reservists were taken off (TIME...
...Japanese Foreign Office, in stiffer language than the U. S. State Department used to protest the sinking of the U. S. S. Panay by Japanese bombers, notified British Ambassador to Japan Sir Robert Leslie Craigie that the Asama incident was "a serious unfriendly act," and demanded "a full and valid explanation promptly...
...widely they patrol the Seven Seas the British demonstrated last week when one of their cruisers (her name painted out) slid up to the Japanese liner Asama Maru, homeward bound from San Francisco, just as she raised land off Yokohama. A shot over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed...