DESTROYERS SUNK
MIMIC NAVAL BATTLE DUKE AS EYE-WITNESS (Received Oct. 17, noon.) H.S.M. SUSSEX AT SEA, Oct. 17. _ In the moonlight, steaming at 15 knots, the cruisers Canberra, Australia, and Sussex fought a night battle against the Australian destroyers Stuart and Voyager. The cruisers picked up the destroyers at two miles range, theoretically sinking both. The Duke of Gloucester witnessed the battle from the Sussex’s bridge, and was tremendously interested and enthusiastic over the result of the encounter, which was entirely impromptu. All the ratings manned the ships as though in actual battle, every vessel was darkened, and when the battle ended all vessels played searchlights on each other, creating an impressive effect in mid-ocean.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18530, 17 October 1934, Page 5
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