SUNK BY AMERICANS
JAPANESE AIRCRAFT-CARRIER OFF HONOLULU Four Submarines Said to Have Been Destroyed MORE PARTICULARS OF DAMAGE IN HAWAII LONDON, December 7. Imperial Headquarters, Tokio, announces that a naval battle is in progress in the Western Pacific between Japanese and British units. Japanese aircraft are bombing the Hawaiian Islands.
It is officially announced that 144 were killed and 800 wounded in the bombing of the island of Oahu. A Japanese* aircraft carrier has been sunk off Honolulu. Wake Island has been occupied by the Japanese. A series of raids are being made by the Japanese on Hawaii. A total of 350 people were killed in a raid on an airport at Honolulu. iSeveral fires have started in the city area. In the neighbourhood of the island it is reported that anti-aircraft fire and naval action have accounted for six Japanese aircraft and four submarines.
Mr Stephen Early, President Roosevelt’s secretary, announcing the sinking of an army transport laden with lumber 1,300 miles from San Francisco, said Japanese submarines are out in strength in this part of the Pacific. All the attacks jvere made without warning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 6
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