The Northern Advocate Daily “NORTHLAND FIRST” Registered for transmission through the post as a Newspaper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941. Loss Of H.M.A.S. Sydney

Northern Advocate, 3 December 1941, Page 4

The Northern Advocate Daily “NORTHLAND FIRST” Registered for transmission through the post as a Newspaper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941. Loss Of H.M.A.S. Sydney

THE news that the cruiser Sydney, noted ship of the Australian Navy, is missing - under - circumstances wWch leave little room for doubt that she has been sunk and her company of 645 officers and men lost, will be received with regret by British people the world over, but especially in Australia and New Zealand. Details of the encounter in which the Sydney met her fate

are not avaiiaoie, out it is repc attacked and destroyed a heavi She herself disappeared followir elusion is that attacker and att; It had been known for so: missing, but, for reasons stated ment was made, it being hop< afloat. However, that hope has try to make itself believe that s Although the location of tl the incident serves to remind , that they may not be as far re as many in both the Commonseem to believe. This should sti Tasman to concentrate their e important task of winning the - The loss of the Sydney r history of the Australian Navy, the German raiding cruiser Emc ago. That was indeed a great f depredations of an enemy ship 1 of merchant shipping in the Inc The Sydney which succeed* had a glorious career, as the st< Mediterranean and elsewhere testified. The loss of the Sydney, as the destroyer Parramatta, has r spread sympathy with the pec more sincere than the people of ] for Australians and New Zeak kinship and mutual dependence family, whose joys and sorrows The Strugg NEWS oi the fierce fighting will be read with the keen Zealand, for it is clear th, playing a prominent part in tl and Italian armies. It was stated a few clays aj per cent, of the forces operatin has been demonstrated that the mainly of New Zealanders a allocated tasks of the utmost ii That the New Zealanders honour to themselves and con indicated on many occasions. 1 lightly earned, the opposition ( ferocious and persistent. Todd stated that General Rommel, d and throwing in all his resource with the forces separated from created by New Zealanders an] to some extent. It is not known whether captured ground at Sidi Rezagh meaning of a cable which staback and that the British remay or may not refer to a pre Germans. However that may Zealanders have been given ar important gate, and that they cf the trust placed in them. General Rommel is clearly even if he should be able to 1: hitherto kept apart by the Brit of men anci supplies are preca subject to the attentions of th< a watchful eye upon points in might be landed, while there is south of Benghazi an assault w communications with Tripoli. Evidence of the Navy’s eff( a report that a British cruiser s; of petrol across the Meditern destroyed and an escorting Ital Attacks such as these up destruction of tanks and arm replaced, must do much to brin in Libya.

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