Show ship Is burned to foil devils aboard seattle wash to foil fell the devils which japanese seafaring meng menk were convinced brought her misfortune the death ship ryo yet yel maru has bas alieen been consigned to the ahe flames the vessel veisel a fishing smack drifted on tle the broad pacific 11 months while her crew of 12 nipponese fishermen sickened starved and died the rye kyo yet yel valued at about was wag secretly towed to an isolated beach on puget sound recently her hold filled with waste and soaked with oil set afire and reduced to a mass of smoldering ashes and twisted metal it had been planned to ship the ryo hyo yet yel back to japan and arrangements were made to place the 85 foot boat on the afterdeck after deck of an american mall liner for the return voyage but the fisher folk of All misael sald japan chere here the ship was built billt were convinced that evil spirits had taken possession of the ship and her return to japan might bring other calamities |