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...last night of February she headed out from Tanjong Priok, Batavia, to take up a new stand off the South Java coast. With her were the Australian cruiser Perth and one Dutch destroyer. Half her crew was at battle stations, the rest flopped exhausted in their bunks...
Heart Trouble. In San Francisco, Elizabeth Hutchison was reported en route to Perth, western Australia, to marry Robert Littleton, 73, who first proposed 40 years ago. In Camden, N.J., Hugh Watson, 63, sued for divorce after one month of marriage, 43 years of separation...
...DAVID MARSHALL Straits Settlements Volunteer Force Perth, Australia...
Sunda Strait. "On Feb. 28 [1942] the [British cruiser] Exeter, the [U.S. destroyer] Pope and [British destroyer] Encounter headed for Sunda Strait and were never heard from again. On March 1 the [U.S. cruiser] Houston and [Australian cruiser] Perth and [Dutch destroyer] Evertsen headed in the same direction and except for very meager reports of an engagement in the Sunda Strait, they have not been heard from since...
Australia is almost as big as the U.S.; it has almost the population of New York City (the sheep population almost equals the U.S. human population). From Canberra (pronounced Can-bra), near Sydney on the east coast, to Perth out west is 2,400 miles. Just the fringes of Australia are inhabited; the southeast, particularly, and a little around Perth on the west coast (big-timber country) and at Darwin up north in the tropics, then down the east coast to Brisbane where urban living starts again...