JAPANESE SHIPS
OFFENDERS LISTED
SUPPLYING NAZI RAIDERS?
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.)
LOS ANGELES, May 23.
The British Consulate has mentioned eleven Japanese whalers and tankers as being on Britain's "ships" list.
An announcement which appeared in the "Los Angeles Commerial News" as an official British Government notice said: "'Charterers and shippers are advised, in their own interests, that by reason of contravention of British regulations the British Government will impose all the disabilities in its power on the trading of the undermentioned vessels."
The ships are the Tonan Maru, Tonan Maru No. 2, Tonan Maru No. 3, Itukusima Maru, Hokusin Maru, Sinsei Maru, Sinoy Maru, Ryokai Maru, Nissen Maru, Nissen Maru No. 2, and Kyokuyo Maru.
The Itukusima Maru was recently constructed in Japan as a naval reserve tanker. Reports have been frequently circulated on thj waterfrontthat Britain was evolving .orne form of reprisal against Japanese tankers and whalers suspected of supplying fuel to German raiders. It is pointed out that all the vessels listed are equipped with powerful short-wave radio, which could be used to inform Tokio of British ship movements.
The Tonan Maru No. 3 is expected to arrive at Los Angeles today. The Kyokuyo Maru sailed yesterday for Tokio with 150,000 barrels of oil.— U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 10
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