GALLANT EXPLOIT
JAPANESE RAIDER SUNK IN INDIAN OCEAN BY BRITISH MINE-SWEEPER & DUTCH TANKER. SECOND ENEMY SHIP MAKES OFF. LONDON, November 25. In the Indian Ocean, I,uOU miles south-west of Java, the minesweeper Bengal, of the Royal Indian Navy, and a Netherlands tanker, a motor-vessel of t>,UUU tons, engaged two heavily-armeq Japanese raiders and sank one of them. The news of this exploit is given in a British Admiralty 'communique issued this evening. The Allied ships scored many hits in succession on the leading enemy raider and she caught fire, blew up ana sank, along with a number of planes sue was carrying. The suvivmg raider concentrated all her fire on the tanker, whose captain was killed. The crew ol tne tanker, having expended all their ammunition, abandoned ship. Four memoers ol the tanker crew were killed when tne raider machine-gunned them in their lifeboats before'making off. borne members of the tanker crew inert returned to their ship and got her under way again.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1942, Page 3
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