ATTACK IN TASMAN
Ship’s Escape In Winter. Raid (Received September 4,11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 4. Four of the crew were killed and six injured when an Allied merchant ship was attacked by an enemy submarine off the coast of New South ■Wales about two months ago. The news has just been released ip a communique (from General MacArthur’s headquarters, which states that the ship was damaged but reached port. The stern of the vessel was a crumpled mass of wreckage. Two torpedoes were fired at the freighter. The first hit the stern, making a shambles of the crew’s quarters, where 22 men were sleeping, and blowing away the rudder and .part of the propeller. The second topedo passed by the stern of tiie ship. Then the submarine fired a single shell across the bows of the stricken vessel before ordering the crew to abandon ship. The crew were afloat in two lifeboats for more than an hour before volunteers remanued the freighter, repaired the radio and seut out an SOS. In {lie meantime, the submarine, which was of the large ocean-going type, had disappeared, apparently believing that the freighter was doomed. The vessel drifted aimlessly till tugs arrived and towed her $
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 7
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201ATTACK IN TASMAN Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 7
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