TIMELY RESCUE
JAPANESE PASSENGERS & CREW PICKED UP IN LIFEBOATS. DRIVEN FROM BURNING SHIP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 9.45 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. Captain L. E. Hawkins, master of the American tanker, reported by radio to have rescued the 209 passengers and crew of the Bokuyo Maru in a further message stated that the tanker arrived on the scene in a -dense fog. six hours after the final S.O.S. and found the passengers and crew in lifeboats floating among much wreckage. The fire broke out in the Bokuyo Marti’s nitrate cargo and a fight to extinguish the outbreak was in vain. The lifeboats got away just before flames enveloped the vessel from sum: to stern.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 8
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117TIMELY RESCUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 8
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