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SINKING OF THE YARRA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CANBERRA, March 24 The Australian sloop Yarra went down with her guns blazing defiance at an overwhelmingly superior Japanese naval force. Her last heroic fight in defence of a merchant convoy in dangerous waters around Java was described today by the Prime Minister, Mr J. Curtin, who said the stories of the 13 survivors of the Yarra who had been landed at a British port showed that the sloop put up a gallant fight. She was attacked by three Japanese heavy cruisers and four destroyers 30 miles south of Tjilatjap, on March 3. The Yarra at that time was convoying two merchant ships and a motor mine-sweeper. Mr Curtin said all the British ships gallantly resisted and continued fighting until overwhelmed by the enemy’s great superiority in speed, numbers and gunfire.
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Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21687, 25 March 1942, Page 3
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