IN PERIL AT SEA
SHIP STRUCK BY BOMBS SYDNEY,-Feb. 24 The ship in which Mrs. Mok Ah Fong left Singapore for the Netherlands East Indies was attacked at sea by five Japanese planes, but although hit by two bombs, drove off the attackers, and proceeded on its way Mrs. Ah Fong has arrived in Australia with her two small children Margaret and Simon. Her husband, who is a fitter employed by Qantas Empire Airways, preceded her here. “We left Singapore at 6.30 a.m., and at about 5.30 p.m. the ‘alert’ sounded, and lasted about an hour,” said Mrs Ah Fong. “I was in my cabin. I picked up the children and rushed to the dining saloon, where we had been told to go if a raid should occur. The ship was full of passengers, mostly Chinese. There was no panic. “Five planes attacked us,” she added. “I think they were on their way to Singapore. From the dining saloon we couldn’t see anything, but somebody told me that the planes dropped about 15 bombs altogether. Two struck the ship, damaging the sick bay, the bar and the storeroom.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20708, 7 March 1942, Page 5
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