JAPANESE LOSS
LARGE MERCHANT SHIP TORPEDOED WHILE TAKING EXPERTS SOUTH. OVER 500 SURVIVORS PICKED UP. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 14. It was announced officially over the Tokio radio that the War and Navy Ministries admitted today that a large Japanese merchantman, while under naval escort on May 8, was torpedoed and sunk, in the eastern part of the South China Sea, by an enemy submarine, but the submarine is believed to have been sunk. The official announcement said the sunken Japanese vessel carried as passengers persons engaged in economic activities in southern regions. A torpedo hit the ship, which instantly caught fire. So far 541 survivors have been rescued.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1942, Page 4
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