FROM: RADM TAKEDA, 3RD BASE FORCE CO. TERNATE. CELEBES.
TO: VADM OZAWA. SOUTHERN FLEET HQ. ASW COMMAND. CAMRANH BAY.
SUBJECT: XAP HORAI MARU DISASTER MESSAGE.
DATE: JAN 9TH 1942.
TODAY, AT MORNING WE RECEIVE AN INCOMING MESSAGE FROM XAP HORAI MARU (AMBON INVASION GROUP). THE SHIP HAD BEEN HIT BY ONE TORPEDO FROM ENEMY SUBMARINE (SS SARGO. THE ENEMY PERISCOPE WAS SPOTTED, BUT THE SHIP COULD NOT AVOID THE HIT. PORTRAIT OF EMPRESS WAS PUT SAVE IN A RESCUED BOAT.
LAST POSITION OF ENEMY SUBMARINE: 76,109.
ANOTHER ENEMY SS IN THE AREA, I MUST REQUEST ASW ASSETS TO SUPPORT OUR LANDINGS.
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