DARING EXPLOIT
Submarine Effects Rescue
(9 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 6.
A United States submarine, in a daring night operation, rescued 22 persons, including missionaries, 17 women and three children from a Japanese-occupied island in the Solomons.
The United Press correspondent at a South Pacific base says that this was revealed at Admiral Halsey's Headquarters. Japanese, troops tried to capture the party, which escaped to the jungle. The submarine was guided by radio messages, to which it could not reply lest it disclosed its whereabouts. The submarine reached a pre-determined rendezvous on schedule. Following a pre-desig-nated signal, the refugees went aboard.
The Navy Department explained that had the plain failed a second attempt would have been made the next night. The second venture might have had tragic consequences because the morning after the rescue a large Japanese force was landed. The day after the party was taken aboard the submarine they were transferred to a patrol boat for passage to Australia.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22474, 8 January 1943, Page 5
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