Complex sentence: At 2:32 AM the "Haguro" began to go down stern first in the Malacca Strait, off Penang; "Kamikaze" rescued 320 survivors, but nine hundred men--including Vice Admiral Hashimoto and Rear Admiral Sugiura--perished with her.
Split into simpler sentences: At 2:32 AM the "Haguro" began to go down stern first in the Malacca Strait, off Penang; "Kamikaze" rescued 320 survivors. Nine hundred men, including Vice Admiral Hashimoto and Rear Admiral Sugiura, perished with her.