OFFENSIVE SPIRIT
EXHIBITED BV DUTCH IN JAVA SOME BOLD EXPLOITS. DAMAGED TANK DRIVEN OVER ENEMY GUN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, March 3. A 8.8. C. observer, broadcasting from Java, reports that the Dutch troops are showing an offensive spirit. The observer visited a village in the west, where the Japanese had settled, and which the Dutch counter-attacked yesterday, to find out the strength and position of the enemy. The commander of the first Dutch tank line found the Japanese fighting in houses, and heaped in the streets was wrecked furniture. On reaching the centre of the place he saw an antitank gun spit at him. He fired at the crew of the gun, but his tank was hit by two shells. Knowing he was out of
the fight anyhow, he steered his tank towards the gun and drove over it. He reported that things looked rather fiat after they had passed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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155OFFENSIVE SPIRIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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