From: Manila (Nihro)
To: Tokyo
September 20, 1941
Purple
#618
The boats anchored here,
the 26th, are:
Phoenix,
Bukko [a]
[Section of blanks
apparently representing about 15 code groups, LWJ] a chartered boat (12,000 to
13,000 tons, number of crew unknown) carrying (?) approximately 200 sailors.
The Pitasu [a] (Peters ?),
which entered the harbor on the 18th, is reported to have carried 500 soldiers.
ARMY 22772 Trans. 9-27-41 (6)
[a] Kana spelling.
(EXHIBITS OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 2 JAPANESE MESSAGES CONCERNING MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, SHIP MOVEMENTS, ETC.)