bombardments of Sydney and Newcastle.

On Monday, 8th June, the Japanese submarines varied their attacks on the east coast of Australia by carrying out brief bombardments of Sydney and Newcastle. At 12.15 a.m. the Sydney examination vessel, H.M.A.S. Adele, sighted flashes of gunfire about nine miles S.E. by S. of Macquarie
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Light, and approximately four miles east of Cape Banks. Between then and 12.20 a.m., ten shells, only four of which exploded, one harmlessly, fell in the Rose Bay and Bellevue Hill areas.