Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 73
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[Page 73]
1917
Thu. 27th Sep.
At about 3 p.m. the prize followed us in and anchored alongside.
She is the monthly mail steamer of the N.Y.K. line en route from Yokohama to Liverpool; the "Hitachi Maru" twin screw 6500 tons. She left Colombo for Delagoa Bay on the 24th and had on board a crew of 117 and 55 passengers.
Passengers include three Englishwomen, a half-caste and a Chinese woman, a Jap. stewardess and a small child. Male passengers are a number of Englishmen (mostly en route to England to enlist), several Japanese (including a naval lieut-commander en route to the Mediterranean), Indians, and a group to Portugese soldiers (in uniform) on leave from Macao.
The Germans give the number killed yesterday as 20, including two Indian passengers.