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...Philadelphia last week, without the cargo she had come to fetch for the Emperor of Japan, steamed the Azuma Maru. The cargo which the neat little Japanese freighter sailed without...
...Azuma Maru's hoped-for cargo was held up by one U.S. citizen's ire. Edward Jobbins, who manages the Wilson-Martin division of Wilson & Co., Inc. (meats) and is busy as a bee making fatty acids for the manufacture of various articles of defense, read in his Philadelphia paper one morning that the Azuma Maru had arrived in port to load lubricating oil. Mr. Jobbins hit the ceiling. He failed to see why, when the East Coast was facing a shortage of petroleum products-because oil-carrying tankers had been transferred to the British-an Axis power...
Terrible Harold Ickes, apparently unaware of the Azuma Maru until that very moment, promptly responded. With no law at all on his side but with the might of the Treasury Department and the Coast Guard and the cooperation of the oil companies, he stopped the Azuma Maru from taking on a single barrel of oil. A few days later, so that next time there would be a law, President Roosevelt put all U.S. petroleum products under export control, forbade shipments from Atlantic ports to any place except the Western Hemisphere, the British Empire and Egypt...
...time a rescue ship had picked up the tired, haggard little colony, taken them safely on to Australia, the garbled accounts had begun to make sense. They traced the voracious course of an armed Nazi merchantman with its prison and supply ships, the Manyo Maru and the Tokyo Maru, which had been shooting up Pacific shipping lanes for weeks, bagging at least ten New Zealand, British, French and Norwegian vessels...
Other ships fell victim as the cruise continued: the Holmwood, Notou, Ringwood, Triona, Triadic, Triaster, Vinni. Most male prisoners were jammed into the Tokyo Maru under machine-gun guard. Once 132 of them were kept under hatches for three days without fresh water, bedded down with a herd of pigs. Their food was black bread, raw sausage and bacon. Aboard the Manyo Mam the women fared little better. Fifteen of them were crowded into a 12-by-10-foot cubbyhole below the water line, with no water for bathing, scanty food. Once they were allowed to go on deck...