WORK OF THE NAVY
DEFIANCE OF PLANES
(Bee. 12.45 p.m.) BATAVIA, Feb. 2,
War correspondents from Singapore, who have reached a Netherlands East Indies port, pay warm tributes to the superb work which British warships are doing in dangerous and narrow waters under a constant aerial threat.
One correspondent said he left in a naval vessel with a damaged warship in tow. They were bombed by two Japanese reconnaissance planes.
Two bombs dropped between the ships, severing the tow-rope. For four and a half hours they wallowed in narrow waters, an easy target and momentarily expecting waves of planes.
Finally a new rope was secured, but the old rope fouled one of the propellers. They resumed towing on one screw and after 12 hours another warship came up and took over the tow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1942, Page 5
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