Sidelights On Pacific
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War
ix/fANY people have wondered just iVI how it was that the Australian warship “Canberra” was lost in the confused Solomons night battle in 1942. There is an answer in this para graph, taken from a review of a book, “1 Went to See for Myself;* by an American reporter, W. Norton - Taylor : IN Honolulu he asked the police to name their greatest wartime problem, and they replied “juvenile delinquency.’
In Fiji, “most of the liquor was Aus tralian, and pretty bad.” Of the battle of Savo Island, in which the “Canberra” was lost, he writes: “Congressman Maas, who was In the area as a Marine Corps Reserve officer, asserted that the enemy had no more than three cruisers. If that was true it supported a theory held by many men of our Can (destroyer)—that some of the destruction that night was wrecked by our own ships, mixed up, mill ing around and firing at each other.