Pasko Rogulj: Austro-Hungarian Prisoner of Japanese, item 15

• March 17, 2017 13:06:59 Lucas Diaz

   In left photograph
  

  FIORINI —
  

     —— POLA

  CLIVO S. STEFANO

  
  

  
  

  Pasco Rogulj (from Prapatnica near Trogir) finished seaman's
  

  training 1914 at Pula.  His first voyage was aboard SMS Kaiserin
  

  Elisabeth to Tsingtau (Chingdao) to "show the flag" at German
  

  colony of Kiaochao. Shortly after arrival war broke out and
  

  Japanese besieged Tsingtau. Kaiserin Elisabeth crew removed
  

  guns from ship and scuttled her.  Quickly captured, Austrian and
  

  German crewmen became prisoners of war and were transported
  

  to Japan.  They remained there at Himeji and Aonagahara[SIC] until
  

  1920, when they were returned home on a French ship.  Pictures
  

  and documents in this collection belonged to Pasco Rogulj.
  

  Avoiding subsequent service in the Yugoslav or Italian navies,
  

  Rogulj traveled to France in 1922 and thence to the US,
  

  Line half cut where he became a US citizen.
  

• March 17, 2017 13:06:26 Lucas Diaz

   In left photograph
  

  FIORINI —
  

     —— POLA

  CLIVO S. STEFANO

  
  

  
  

  Pasco Rogulj (from Prapatnica near Trogir) finished seaman's
  

  training 1914 at Pula.  His first voyage was aboard SMS Kaiserin
  

  Elisabeth to Tsingtau (Chingdao) to "show the flag" at German
  

  colony of Kiaochao. Shortly after arrival war broke out and
  

  Japanese besieged Tsingtau. Kaiserin Elisabeth crew removed
  

  guns from ship and scuttled her.  Quickly captured, Austrian and
  

  German crewmen became prisoners of war and were transported
  

  to Japan.  They remained there at Himeji and Aonagahara[SIC] until
  

  1920, when they were returned home on a French ship.  Pictures
  

  and documents in this collection belonged to Pasco Rogulj.
  

  Avoiding subsequent service in the Yugoslav or Italian navies,
  

  Rogulj traveled to France in 1922 and thence to the US,
  

  where he became a US citizen.
  

  
  

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