YOIZUKI "SMELT LIKE A SEWER"
SYDNEY, March 14. With most of the 350 Formosans and
Koreans lining the decks, the Japanese hcspital ship I-Iawata Maru left Rabaul this morning to pick up other internees at Kokopo before ciearing for Formosa. Members of the Government Conrmission appointed to investigate the conditions on the Yoizuki left by air this morning, but were forcea to return for some unexplained reason. It is helieved that they will leave again tornorrow. Oificiais at Rabaul have accepted the hospital ship's captain 's explanation that he misunderstood his orders when he sailed without permission yesterday. An Australian who went helow the decks of the Yoizuki before she sailed from Rabaul said she was a vile vessel and smelt like a sewer. "No white man could live in her for 24 hours without getting very sick, ' ' he said. "Inside she is dark as a dungeon and has only a minimum of portholes." The hospital ship is a floating palace in comparison. She has white linen and a staff of 63 nurses and 28 doctors.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1946, Page 5
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