1955年的神奈川新聞全文

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1955年5月26日神奈川新聞有關神靖丸的報導終於在友人山中教授協助之下找到了原文.神靖丸確是在由日本"北川Salvage公司"打撈時發現約300人遺骨.報社訪問了在橫濱市工作的保川先生(船上倖存的"副罐手"),他指認了是當年台灣高雄市征用臺灣醫務工員云云.另外提到空襲時間是1945年1月12日清晨7點早餐之時.船左側中至近彈一,第二艙蓋中了命中彈一,右側中了空中魚雷一,沉沒於9時40分.
With the help of Professor Yamanaka, the original report published on May 26, 1955 in Kanagawa News has now been found. It is preserved in the microfilm archives. Indeed, Shinsei Maru was recovered by Kitagawa Salvage Co from Japan and during the operation, about 300 sets of remains were found. The newspaper interviewed a Mr Bokawa of Yokohama who had been on board as one of the ship's officers. He confirmed that the deceased were medical draftees from Kaohsiung. In addition, the ship was attacked on Jan 12, 1945 at 7AM breakfast time. It received a bomb hit on the port side, another directly on Hatch No 2, and the starboard side was hit by an air-torpedo. The ship sank at 9:40AM.

据該報導,神靖丸船身送給了越南作為賠償,但是隻字未提遺體的下落.日本厚生労働省承認在1966年7月時有5位神靖丸無名者送返東京的千鳥ケ淵墓園安葬.但"不知"其他人的下落.即無完整的資料,只知沉船處在佛印頭頓海面,可能連上引神奈川新聞報導都還不知道.
According to the report, the hull of the wreakage was delievered to Vietnam as a compensation. It, however, did not mention anything about the fate of the remains. The Japanese Kosei-Rodo Ministry informs us that in July of 1966, five unidentified Shinsei Maru deceased were returned from Indochina to the Chidorigafuchi Boyen in Tokyo for burial; however, they do not have any information on the others. They do not seem to be even aware of the 1955 news report.

再努力吧.
We will keep on trying.