BRITISH SUB'S EXPLOITS
JAP CONVOY DESTROYED Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, April 13. A British submarine, encountering a Japanese convoy in failing light off Sumatra, sank or damaged every vessel in it in a surface action before darkness fell. The commander of the submarine, which has returned to England, gave orders to surface when he sighted the convoy, consisting of five coasters and one escort, vessel. The submarine scored six hits before the escort vessel was able to fire again. She was left sinking. The submarine turned on the coasters, which kept up machinegun fire. Four coasters were beached and a boarding party finished off the fifth. The same submarine in an attack against a threa-ship convoy set fire to a tanker, hit a second ship, and forced a third to beach. " '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 88, 14 April 1945, Page 5
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