MORE THAN 2300 RESCUED
LOSS OF PRINCE OF WALES AND THE REPULSE London. Dec. 11. An Adm.rally communique states that approximately 130 officers and 23« i ratings have been saved from the Prince of Wales and the Repulse. The exact figures are not yet available, owing to the fact that injured have been dispersed amongst several hospitals. The total lomplements were approximately 2900: Prince of Wales. 110 officers and 1515 ratings; Repulse. 60 officers and 1240 ratings. The British Prime Minister. Mr. Winston Churchill, said:— "The naval power of Britain an 1 the United States is largely superior
’to the combined forces of the three I Axis Powers but none can underrate the gravity of the losses inflictd in Malaya and Hawaii or the power of the new antagonist who has fallen lon us. ■ -There is reason to believe that the ■<>**» of life on Uie battleship H.M.S. Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse is lighter than at first , feared.” Berlin radio announced that the American aircraft carrier which the Japanese claim to have sunk off Malaya was the Lexington. (The Lexington is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, being of 33.00 U tons. She was built in 1927 and mounts • --.n. n ■mi: 12 5-inch guns. She .s capable of carrying 8».» aircraft.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 294, 13 December 1941, Page 5
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