GOOD WORK DONE
BY DUTCH COASTAL BATTERY.
DIRECT HIT ON JAPANESE WAR VESSEL.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 16.
In the course of the attack on Tarakan, a Dutch coastal battery, besides sinking two Japanese destroyers and doing other damage scored a direct hit on either a Japanese cruiser or destroyer. The Japanese bombed the aerodromes at Amboina and Medan in Sumatra.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1942, Page 4
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67GOOD WORK DONE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1942, Page 4
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