JAPANESE RAIDER SUNK
! ENGAGEMENT WITH MINESWEEPER AND TANKER (Rec. 12.40 p.m.) Rugby, Nov. 25. I A Japanese raider was sunk in the I Indian Ocean when a minesweeper of I the Royal Indian Navy and a Nether-1 lands tanker took on two heavily armed! Japanese raiders and sank one of them. The story is told in an Admiralty communique. The minesweeper Bengai and a tanker of 6000 tons engaged the raiders a thousand miles south-west of Java and scored many hits in rapid succession on the leading raider, which soon caught fire, blew up and sank. The second raider then turned its guns on the tanker, whose master was killed. When there was no more am- 1 munition the crew abandoned the ves- i sel and the enemy machine gunned the lifeboats, killing four members of the crew before making off. Some of the , crew then returned to the ship and got j her under way.—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 26 November 1942, Page 2
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