TRIP TO THE EAST
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Ship Held Up by Japanese
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WELLINGTON, Last Night. Miss M. Sutherland returiied to Wellington to-day from a trip to the East. She said the ship she was travelling in, tlie Nankin, was held up by a Japanese destroyer before the Nankin reached Hongkong, and she was boarded and the papers examined. All the time a gun was trained on her. One night a number of Japanese destroyers were passed and searchlights played on the Nankin. Submarines could he seen manoeuvring aroundi Miss Sutherland left New Zealand before the fighting began in. earnest. "We were not allowed to go to Shanghai," she said, "and even Oanton was not safe to go to, but I visited Yokohama. Inltead of a fortnight, I only had Sve days in Japan. I enjoyed the visit very much, the Japanese treating us very well.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 53, 25 November 1937, Page 12
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146TRIP TO THE EAST Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 53, 25 November 1937, Page 12
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