ATTACK BY MARINES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 37, 7 November 1942, Page 7

ATTACK BY MARINES

Enemy Reinforced In Solomons 350 JAPS KILLED (Received November 6, 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 5. United States troops on Guadalcanal have launched an attack on reinforced enemy troops on their eastern flank, a Navy Department communique issued today announced. In a successful action on their western flank on T uesday the Americans killed 350 Japanese and captured artillery and machineguns.

United States land attacks continue successfully on two fronts, six miles east and six miles west of Henderson Airfield. The latest communique reads: On Monday, the Army Air Force bombed enemy supply dumps and troop concentrations on the north . coast of Guadalcanal in the vicinity of Kokujnbona. No opposition was encountered. "On Tuesday, United States troops continued their successful attacks against enemy position® w’est of Matanikau River.

Three field pieces, 12 37-niilli-metre fight artillery guns and 30 machineguns were captured and 350 Japanese were killed. “During Tuesday night, further enemy forces landed on the north coast of Guadalcanal to the east of Koli Point. After an initial repulse at dawn on Wednesday, the marines are pressing their attack on these enemy troops.” Ira Wolfert, American Newspaper Alliance correspondent, iu a dispatch from Guadalcanal, says that the Japanese continue to pay dearly for their ambitions to break the American toehold in the Solomons. "Japanese bombers eome over occasionally in waves,” he says, “but they are not accompanied by Zeros. We are using mostly pursuit planes for divebombers. They are doing good work silencing Japanese batteries.” , The Washington correspondent -of the "New York Times” states that a Navy spokesman, commenting on rhe communique, conceded that the situation on Guadalcanal, where the Americans are fighting in opposite directions, must be considered serious as long as the Japanese remain on the island, but there are no reports that the Americans are in serious trouble and also no news from South Pacific waters where the navy leaders still expect an important naval clash. Koteumlbona, mentioned in the communique, is a coastal spot six miles west of Henderson Airfield, where the Japanese landed reinforcements in the middle of October.