TO BE DRIVEN OUT

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 247, 20 October 1942, Page 2

TO BE DRIVEN OUT

JAPAN IN ALEUTIANS.

P.A. Cable.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.

Twenty-six low-flying Marauder bombers carried out a deck-level attack against enemy shipping at Kiska on Friday, says the United Press correspondent in Alaska, quoting an Army announcement that Marauders found destroyers disguised as cargo ships. The attackers saw crates on the ships' decks fly high through smoke and flame and geysers of water. Japanese sailors were seen gding over the side clinging to wreckage. The ships were the first Japanese naval craft sighted near Kiska for several days. Army officials believed that crates on the decks contained fighter planes for the Kiska garrison which is apparently without fighter protection. The Army lannouncer indicated that there would be continued relentless attacks to drive the Japanese from the Aleutians. A Navy Department communique says that on Saturday, October 17 (Washington date), Army Liberator bombers attacked a camp in the Kiska area and bombed ships in the harbc.ur. Fifteen tons of bombs were dropped, but overcast conditions prevented observation of results. Antiaircraft opposition was slight. No enemy aircraft was seen.