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.)