When The War
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Came To Sydney
About 5 p.m. on May 31, 1942, three Japanese midget submarines, each with two men aboard, were launched from a trio of bigger sub~ marines about seven miles off Sydney Harbour.
THEIR mission was to get into Syd ney Harbour, create as much havoc as they could, and, if possible, return to their mother ships.
Two of the submarines got into the harbour all right—one got caught in a torpedo net near the entrance—and for the next 10 hours or so, before they were sunk by depth charges and gunfire, they gave Sydney its only taste of warfare at close hand.
The story of the midget submarines’ raid on Sydney and the events lead ing up to it has now been told from both the Australian and Japanese points of view in a paperback called To Sydney by Stealth.
Its authors are Hugh V. Clarke, of the Australian Department of Territories, who spent several years as a prisoner of the Japanese after the fall of Singapore; and Takeo Yamashita, a former warrant officer
in the Japanese Navy.-
RL.
(To Sydney By Stealth. Horwitz
Publications, Sydney. 48c.)