ALERTS AT DARWIN
JAPANESE RAIDERS FAIL TO APPEAR AFTER PASSING OVER TIMOR. STATEMENT BY FEDERAL AIR MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. An air raid alert was sounded at Port Darwin yesterday afternoon. Advice was received that two flights, each of 20 Japanese planes, heading towards Darwin, had passed over Timor Island. Royal Australian Air Force fighters took off to intercept the raiders, but no raiders appeared over Darwin and the all clear signal was given about two hours later. The Minister for Air, Mr A. S. Drakeford, declined to indicate whether the Japanese planes had been in the vicinity of Darwin. He said the fact that attacks had not followed this and earlier alerts at Darwin did not mean that the alerts were false alarms.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 4
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133ALERTS AT DARWIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 4
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