SUNK BY MINE
JAPANESE PASSENGER STEAMER NUMBER OF PEOPLE DROWNED. “MOST SOLEMN PROTEST” MADE TO RUSSIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) TOKIO, November 5. The Japanese steamer Kibi Marti, 4522 tons, plying between Seishin and Tsuruga, carrying 342 passengers, struck a floating mine overnight and sank within half an hour. Another message states that the Japanese Foreign Office announced on Thursday that the Russian Ambassador had been handed “a most solemn protest” against the sinking of the Kibi Maru. The mine is alleged to have drifted from Russian territorial waters. It is stated that seventeen passengers on the Japanese ship were drowned and nine seriously injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 5
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