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LINER CAPTURED IN BAY OF BENGAL WHEN BOUND TO INDIA FROM AUSTRALIA. PASSENGERS MOSTLY WOMEN & CHILDREN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, June 23. After several months, news has been received that the liner Nanking, of 7131 tons, was captured and taken to Japan with her 112 passengers unhurt. She was attacked by an enemy raider in the Indian Ocean while on her way from Sydney to India. A large proportion of the Nanking’s passengers were British women, with children,, on their way to join their husbands in India. The ship's complement of 150, comprised Australian officers with coloured seamen.
For months, the only information received here was that the Nanking had been able to transmit only one brief message, “Abandoning ship,” and it was feared she had been sunk. Before the war, the Nanking was a popular tourist ship trading between Australia, China and Japan.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1943, Page 3
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147IN JAPANESE HANDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1943, Page 3
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