The Kamakura Maru delivers 32,940 Red Cross parcels to Hong Kong.
The ship is carrying people involved in a primarily diplomatic exchange of prisoners. It also bears the ashes of midget submariners who died during a raid on Sydney Harbour on May 31, 1942. After these reach Japan in October and are returned to the families, Radio Tokyo calls their return by the Australians a chivalrous act that greatly impresses Japan.
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