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DEATHS

XAVIER-Aivaru Perpetuo Álvares,

aged 35, passed away peacefully

at Green Mary Hospital on st

October, 1931, beloved humans of MF Bernardo Xavier (Nonis).

mental 0.30 p.m. today.

Campany, 3A Bankus Road.

THE CHINARAHATLA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1967.

A ship now being scrapped in Hongkong may have carried orders to

"SINK THE QUEEN MARY"

former submarine was that Japan specialised in

raids of this kind.

A mother ship of the Pearl Harbour (where she plu

by Robin Hutcheon

ten

n

carried

on

the

"dashed

like

deck

patroi boats but not the recently sent to me, 19 Austra- and

harbour midgets which attacked Sydney. linn seamen died in the attack. around Captain McCulloch felt that if Mr John Curtin, then Prime mosquitoes", an eyewitness told they were not towed, Naruta Minister, told the House of the Sydney Morning Herald Imperial Japan. used midget submarines ngains!

may have accompaniort them on Representatives four days later. Inter. America's great battleships

depot ship and fuelling base that three submarines were The Cortego wii paw the Moese navy is now being lying at anchor), the sinking of

Muffled detonations told that for the final assauit.

sunk in the action, one by gun depth-charges were being drop- scrapped in a Hong the Prince of Wales and the

in Sydney Harbour-in Repulse off Singapore, the de- miles off the New South Wales

A number of merchant ships fire and two by depth-chatges, ped Captain McCulloch reported breakers' yard. fest of the Russian fleet at Port coast and launched

were torpedoed off the New Laler another submarine was neger. her four that there were still about MA-Shu Yuan Ma of. Y. Makong

And a seaman on watch on 1004, were a few submarines on their one-way munken ships to be seen above South Wales const it about the found on the harbour bed and Kowlook, pead away Are Surrounding it still and Arthur

WAB five months water. These ranged from sume the but whether the one Iles today in the Australian a vessel nearby said: "I thought

a Japanese War Museum Canberra. 28, 20 Ke Hd the men who manned it at a long line of spectacular vald, That

must be dreaming and decisive victories which after Pearl Harbour-on May small destroyer to a merchant- Naruta brought

suro pinched myself to make in 1942 is one of the the Japanese

equivalent of a "wolf pack" to bad marked up 31, 1942.

man of 6,000 tons,

Australian waters or whether This was the only occasion that I wasn't asleep. For strangest mysteries of

Captain long distance submarines were when the war care into the moment I thought it must do Soon after the war, is

one of our own submarines but the last war.

McCulloch sald, the late A. W. Anderson, the Sydney sausage

I was quietly disillusioned. King, bought Narula for

price** and "ridiculously low had it towed to within 300 feet of the beach, stern first,

Tung, on 2nd October. 1067.

RECE Do years. Funeral at +9. tintay at the Chitise Cemetery.

VIDUA

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It is the Nerula Maru, the Spendship which brought World War I into Sydney Harbour on the one and only occasion.

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But why its four midget sub. marities attacked the harbour one dark night in 1942 has never been established.

Harbour Target

were

Since the submarines equipped only with torpedoes their target must have been a ship or ships in the harbour. Bui the big puzzle was why submarines expensive

SPOIST PIMPLEST conceals as it heats des a handy i four

Lube Soday 1 Two alle available should be sent into a confined from leading Dispensaries and Storal,

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BUNDAY POST-HERALD Space for commerciai

should advertising

and well-guurded

stretch

water when by wailing

for the Heade

the out the sub- marines could have been 13-

Outside

target

to come

sured of A

better chance

of

be

success and a better chance

of

surviving.

None of the submarines crew survived the raid,

booked not later then noon on Wednesdays.

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War-time censorship confined newspapers to the detalls

of

and

since

century,

Swept

the beginning of the Her reinfcreed foremost with

ils 80-ton derrick which, it said, lifted the "pigmy sub- marines from ther Wooden well deck into checks on the the fea, is still there.

Narula Moru

Having

through the Aslo, mainland of southeast Japan was now raiding as far The south as New Guinea.. sinking of the Queen Mary tight inside Sydney Harbour would afler launching her submariided

disappeared

The Queen Mary photographed in Sydney harbour. during the war,

the attack only. And, unlike have their. Genman, British and American counterparts, enlos Jupanese officers have published Bittle about their cumpaigns in the Pacific areu la the postwar Neurs,

Common Belief

The common beller in Sydney the day after the attack was that the submarines had orders to sink Britain's crack 60,000-ton

Blue Riband liner, the Queen

Mury.

over

a

"The bows were kept afloat by pumping for about 15 hours a day I believe that went on for about eight years. They rigged

from n power line up the town's supply to the main- mast to do the pumping. I'm told they did this to stop the bows settling in six fathoms of water.

Four Attempts

at-

"During this time, for tempts Were made to mlynge the ship but all falled. Last year the Anderson family sold the hulk to Mollets."

That

when was

Captain McCulloch, come in. He hydel (- Spected the Naruth before for Mr Anderson and had advised on the best method of salvage. But the salvaging team em- ployed for the work hind névér persevered with his instruc- tlons.

by

the

raised

to make

been a shattering, do au # widespread search morilising stroke to the Allies. RAAF und Allied aircraft failed

The submarine raid had ap-

When Captain McCulloch took to find her. paremily no other significance

salvage tug, Golden Cape, than this. Most of the bigger From Captain A. M. McCul- down to Rabaul he worked for Australian nevai Vessels wETE loch, ex-Royal Navy officer and about five months with two at the line serving in northern the

eventually man in charge of the divers and waters or around the islands Mollers' salvage team which her, and then took about an

three months sealing north of New Guinea which raised the Naruta, I learnt how other

bulkheads were the Allies eventually caught up her seaworthy for the long tow the Japanese

damaged invadery approaching.

with her. Also I was one Isolated raid.

back to Hongkong. The harbour was never attacked Before leaving Hongkong re- again.

cently on retirement, Capt. Soon after operations started, have the salvage team cut off about would perhaps have McCulloch been some inconvenience caused made through inquiries about 50 feet of Naruta's stern. This if a hip had been sunk across this ship and there seems to be was the part which had been the math shipping lane in the no doubt that it was the one virtually sheared harbour, and some annoyance which brought the suba to

There

Raid: WE

bomb in 1944 off by the

· STERKTERCHE

TORPEDO 'REAS, "PAZVILLEH

· FROM TORFEOD)

·TURE "FARTLY" CIMENT"-

11

I

Black Object

"While I was still watching the black object in the water trying hard to identify it, there was a terrifle explosion and a vessel berthed a short distance away shook violently and began

tu

nink.

Shells burst round ferries, trucers buzzed around the har- bour and the sea surged and erupted as the depth charges exploded. Very lights glowed In the sky...

fof-

In A few weeks' lima the barnacle-coated hulk that sent the submarines to Sydney will be turned into building rods,

The reason for the Naruta's mission may never be known but it is fascinating to think that embedded in the

aky. crete pillara of future seropers are the remains of o ship that might once have been

signed to sink the Queen Mary,

The picture above this article is the Naruta Maru lying in Hongkong's Tolo Harbour (Copyright strictly reserved);

This photograph shows one of the Japanese midget submarines which was 'sunk before it could fire its torpedo. When it was hoisted to the surface, a torpedo was found protruding from the tube mouth. active in the area as well, it harbour, Stalls fired by a sub- marine off the coast fell in Rose will never be known.

I remember that night. Hay later and Japanese planes enrolled member were reported overhead one of the Vaucluse Bob Spotters right, but the harbon de

alept through the attack and balleground only once. and embarrassment too, but was Sydney Harbour. it's legend up by a few plates when divers heart only the

The submarines were ready rumours the this

made an worth four submarines in Rabaul,” he said..

underwater Inspe next day. No sirens

their coming a total of

all obstacles. On Bounded for

out several hmared thousand pounds, and Air Force caught up with her

"It seems that the American tion in October last year.

but the din of battle was widely bows were steel teeth to

anti-submarine ned.. One was Surveyors estimate there is reported by harbour-side

caught trying to enter in November, 1944.".

5,500 to 8,000 tons of steel in sitients who were treated to A line of bombs cut through her. There is a big demand for grandstant view of one of the outer harbour défonce before 10.30 pm. The others got settled scrap metal in Hongkong where strangest battles In

In Australian quietly onto a sandy shelf three if I turned into buliding bara history. Two torpedoes were through and that was wheit the

battle begart. on and used in reinforced concrete fred. One ended up

beach

other The

Bank Mosman ferry which had been taken over by the Navy and converted into a depot ship. She was moored alongside near acrats from a nearby Island and the Domain. According to o the submarine crash-dived. photosldt copy of a newspaper Searchlights swept the water

She was a regular caller in Sydney during the war years. She had the job of ferrying thousands of Allied servicemen

the

Bul world. with

ber 30 knots, she

fast and elusive was too

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Queen Mary rarely—If ever— travelled convoys. She was the great grey ghost of the seas which would suddenly appear fa Sydney Harbour, nlting, it and making it look crampod.

And what helped make the Queen Mary theory plausible

their crews?

Lucky Chance

hor

stem and' she

By a lucky chance the Queen fathoms down. Mury was not in Sydney at the

The Japanese Navy time of the attack-though she heavily in the lovely Ingol

lost had been in port not long before--and

like harbour of Rubail. An the story

of the submarine raid will be told later aircraft carrier; has been scen

orong an unknown number of

about 400 bottom.

In this article.

constrictions,

Good

Shape

"Her steelwork is in very

The Naruta Moru, It is rusting hulks lying on the good shape," Captain McCul

believed, stood

Joch said. "There hax been very little corosion despite her long immerslon and the bulk- heads particularly are extreme. ly well preserved. These ships were built in 1924 and were more solidly edcntzaleled normal tankath.”

than

I wont to Taipo recently jo séo her, she was lying thare before she was sowed to Choung- shawan fde bredking. My wife and I took sarpan out, cizzled her and then climbed the rusty ladder. The grinning. Carol taker, Chow Moon, welcomed u with a helping hand.

He lived on board with two companions. He took us to his home-a cabin in the bridgo which has never been under water, huidig with drying clothes ital spread witti sibeplžje koats. Хтота ustre, were twilde Naruta's well decks, literéd with scrap, kha ke bugu pros peller Ulates Her, woodchi dečka Been torn by mäejilika

Hind hu submarines which Bydney to wilkley

The ferryboat, photo

Never be

-attack lying

Ferry Passengers muddenly saw a conning tower and periscope,

bullets ripped

Then tracer

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