JAP INHUMANITY
Recd. 6 p.m. New Delhi, Jan. 7. Sixteen British and Indian merchant seamen readied shore, survivors of a crew of 72, many of whom were drowned, when a Japanese submarine rammed their boats after sinking a freighter off the Indian coast.
One of the survivors said that the submarine, after sinking the ship, began methodically ramming and machine-gunning men in boats and on rafts.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19440110.2.68
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 5
Word Count
66JAP INHUMANITY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.