DRAMATIC SCENES
< LAST HOURS OF REPULSE ! Rugby. March 12. 1 The last hours of the warship ( Repulse, which with the Prince of ' Wales was sunk off the coast of ‘ Malaya in December, were described by a survivor, Canon J. S. Bezzant, ( Chancellor of Liverpool Cathedral and f chaplain of the warship, on reaching "j Liverpool. t. “A few minutes after the alarm < signal was given the Repulse was hit < by bombs which went through the seaplane hangar and the mess deck,” s [Canon Bezzant said. “The exnolsion j smashed a steam pipe and ventilation t in the port engineroom was cut off.lv For the next hour the Repulse avoided ' t
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 63, 16 March 1942, Page 6
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