Word: maru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...interest to 512 former crew members of the scuttled German liner Columbus, sent last fortnight from New York's Ellis Island to be held at San Francisco's Angel Island until passage home could be arranged for them. They had been booked on the Japanese Tatuta Maru but reports of British war vessels waiting offshore to grab them changed this plan. In charge of getting the Columbus men back to the Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British were on the alert...