Statement of Yakichiro Suma, Director of the Information Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs, Concerning the Arrival of a Greek Vessel, the S.S. Nitsa, Issued on November 8, 1940
Type
Document
Date
8 November 1940
Speaker / issued by
Yakichiro Suma, Director of the Information Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs
The Greek Government assured us a few days ago that all Greek vessels carrying cargoes bound for Japan would continue their voyage regardless of the present hostilities between Italy and Greece. The instructions of the Greek Government appear to have duly reached the ship owners, for one Greek vessel, the S.S. Nitsa, carrying scrap iron, arrived to-day (November 8) at Yokohama.
The Japanese authorities are seeing to it that the ship is afforded all possible facilities, so that it will experience no difficulty whatsoever in departing as per schedule.
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