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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1940
“DOMALA” CHIEF OFFICER'S STORY
THOSE NAVAL
CHAPS WERE SIMPLY GRAND
London, To-day.
AN INTERVIEW WITH Chief Officer Brawn of the British India ship Domala was broadcast from Daventry yester- day.
Just before 6 p.m. on Saturday, he said, the Domala was steaming along; it was fairly dark, but there was a cer- tain amount of light from the waning moon. He was the officer on watch at the stern with some of time and was with the captain on and crew. the bridge. They were sailing along in fairly rough water when they saw
the passengers
LIFE-LINES
The destroyer tried to come along-
a "big, black 'plane" coming towards them, flying very low. Its naviga-side twice so that they could leap on tion lights were on, leading them to board, but the heavy swell made this to think it was "friendly-but that was operation difficult, and they had
resort to life-lines fired Just trickery."
warship.
were
The 'plane swooped past their masts and disappeared, dropping no bombs, fring no guns. They just thinking that they were safe when the machine roared back and dropped a high-explosive and incendiary bomb, which hit amidships, went right through and exploded in engine-room, sending smoke fumes all over the ship.
Flames soon started to spring and the captain gave the order abandon ship, while part of the crew ran to man the anti-aircraft gun.
TWO MORE BOMBS
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He had a special word of praise for an engineer who was hurt in the first explosion. By some means, the man crawled through a shaft tunnel and up a perpendicular ladder. Twice the crew of a whaler tried to get across to them, but failed heavy seas.
in
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Finally, they tied a life-line to him, fixed a "Iffe-bolt around him and let him gently down into the water. Reuter.
Before they could do anything, the 'plane was back overhead and while some of the crew were trying
to
get away in the boats dropped two more bombs amidships. The whole and middle of the ship was blazing roaring like an inferno,
As it came back the fourth, time, the anti-aircraft gun opened fire and the fourth bomb fell harmless- ly into the water. As it rogred overhead, it raked the decks with machine-gun bullets as it tried to kill the anti-aircraft gun crew, and then disappeared,
rescue,
A destroyer came to the together with a Dutch ship, and "you can make all the fuss you can about those naval chaps! They were sim- ply grand and people like me have them to thank for being `alive!"
The destroyer first picked up the men in the boats and on the rafts. Mr. Brawn said that he was at the
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Indignation In India
Bombay, To-day. Details of the attack on the "Doma- la" are prominently displayed in the Indian newspapers and the headlines reflect the horror and indignation felt at the outrage, which claimed a heavy toll in Indian lives.
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The "Bombay Chronicle," organ of the Indian National Congress, "The Nazis have gone mad. have lost all sense of reason, all in- 'stincts of humanity."
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The newspaper considers that the brutality of the German air- fact man is accentuated by the that the Indian victims were those whom the Germans had held pri- soners since the outbreak of war but had consented to repatriate.
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India will not forget ger in India. this act of Nazi brutality.”-Reuter.
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