Late News

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 33, 3 November 1942, Page 5

Late News

HUGE JAP FLEET REPULSED / Recent Solomons Climax

(By Telegraph.—-Prose Assn.—Copyright.) (Received November 3,1.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 2. Writing from Die headquarters of . tho United States forces in the South Pacific on October 28, art Associated Press correspondent says, “A huge Japanese armada has limped away from the Solomons, licking its wounds. In the last two days naval forces, divebomfiers, and torpedo planes pounded enemy ships which were estimated to number 40 to 50 and which, had been sent from two directions In an attempt to deliver a knock-out blow against Guadalcanal.. “The Japanese fleet corprised two heavy task forces, 150 to 200 miles apart, which approached Guadalcanal from the north-east. . “Douglas dive-boinbers from Guadalcanal hit cruisers and destroyers off Florida Island, and one cruiser was damaged and stopped by a direct bomb-bit, after which Flying Fortresses hit and set fire to a light cruiser or a heavy destroyer. Farther away. American carrier-based torpedo-planes lin'd dive-bombers spiled into the Japanese carrier's, “An American pilot said later that the flight-deck of a big new Japanese carrier was completely smashed * and the vessel appeared to be sinking."