ENEMY CLAIMS
(Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.)
NEW YORK, December 16.
The Tokio radio states that a naval communique reported that a 3,000-ton United States tanker was captured at Guam Island. The Japanese, striking from all sides of the island, gained their first foothold at dawn yesterday at Port Apra. The Domei News Agency reported that a Japanese landing on Wake Island followed upon repeated Japanese aerial attacks on barracks and warehouses, which were smashed and set on fire. Seven United States planes were brought down in a single day’s dogfights ovpr the island. It is also reported that a Japanese submarine sank a 15,000 ton United
States army transport on Tuesday morning, off Manilg Harbour. The Tokio radio quoted a Domei dispatch from Shanghai that the Japanese fleet captured on Monday the liner President Harrison, among several hundred vessels along the Chinese coast and in the Whangpoo River.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1941, Page 5
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