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BRAVE MEN

FIGHTING AGAINST GREAT ODDS NO PROTECTIVE SCREEN OF FIGHTERS. JAPANESE PLANES’ MURDEROUS DIVES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 12. “Relay after relay of Japanese planes circle over Singapore, and then go into murderous dives on our soldiers, who are fighting back in a hell over which there is no screen of our fighters,” writes the Associated Press correspondent, Mr Yates McDaniel, in his final dispatch before leaving the island. “The Japanese are not completely alone in the skies. I saw two Vildebeestes —obsolete biplanes with a speed of about 130 miles an hour —fly low over Japanese positions and unload their bombs. If ever brave men earned undying glory, those R.A.F. airmen have. “There are many other brave men in Singapore. Out in the open spaces, because they must have a clear field of fire, are anti-aircraft batteries. The gun crews keep on peppering the smoke-limited ceiling every time the Japanese planes come near, which is almost constantly. “All other newspaper correspondents have left the island. I am embarking on a ship soon with the Ministry of Information and broadcasting officials.”

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1942, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
183

BRAVE MEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1942, Page 3

BRAVE MEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1942, Page 3

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