SHORT OF TORPEDOES?
SUBMARINE RAIDERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 10. That a reduced force of Japanese submarines is still operating in Australia's sea lanes proved by the latest unsuccessful attack on an Allied vessel. The time as well as the exact location of the attack are not revealed. The absence of reference to a torpedo action, however, Is thought to indicate that any remaining submarines arc short of torpedoes.
If this theory is correct it confirms the belief that Monday morning's shellings of Sydney and Newcastle were farewell gestures by Japanese submarine commanders, who had expended all their torpedoes in attacks on Australian shipping.
Their only successes were against two coastal merchantmen, each of about 3500 tons, and a naval depot vessel in Sydney harbour.
Seven and probably eight enemy submarines were destroyed. The search for any remaining in this area continues.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 5
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