De Moor - Necro Mare # Junyo Maru. (dodenzee Door Het Slavenschip Junyo Maru).

Montfoort, s.n. [The Compiler], [..], 1996. Small 4°., original spiralled plastic spine with clearview limp plastic protective sheet. [7], 2; 25pp. of text, versos blank. Compiler's introduction and synoptical history of the japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies on [7]pp., 2pp. with supplementary historical notes on the S.S. Junyo Maru, followed by a 25pp. compilation concerning an eye-witness report from a dutch P.O.W., a mate, describing the Junyo Maru disaster. Dutch language compilation extracted from an original unpublished manuscript by Willem Punt, under the title 652; Built in Liverpool 1908, with as topic the part describing the torpedoeing, by H.M.S. Tradewind, of the S.S. Junijo Maru, a japanese freighter(built Liverpool 1908), 18th September 1944 near Bencoolen, a slavelabour transport of some 2200 P.O.W. (600 Europeans, 10th Bat. KNIL, and 1600 Ambonese and Menadonese) under command of Lt.Cmdr. R.N.R. Upton, and some 4000 Javanese coolies (Romusha), causing a great number of losses. Few literature is available on this human drama. Very good copy.