Japanese ships loaded with cement for the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper De Indische Courant dated 20 November 1937

An item referred to the newspaper Javabode reporting that the day before the the Italian steamship Burma (chartered by a Japanese company) and the Johore Maru unloaded in the harbour of Tandjong Priok unloaded respectively 50.000 and 35.000 sacks of concrete mainly destined for the firm Lindeteves at Batavia. The newspaper believed that both ships likely were destined for Japan loaded with old iron. They just finished a voyage along the coast of Java.