BRITISH SUBMARINES
OPERATING IN EAST INDIAN WATERS ATTACKS ON JAPANESE CONVOYS. THREE LARGE SHIPS SUNK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 20. An Admiralty communique says that British submarines operating in eastern waters reported successful attacks on Japanese shipping in the Straits of Malacca. One submarine attacked a convoy consisting of three ships. The most important of these—a very large vessel, was torpedoed and sunk. Another British submarine torpedoed and sank two large Japanese supply ships.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1942, Page 3
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75BRITISH SUBMARINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1942, Page 3
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