CLEANING UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1942, Page 3

CLEANING UP

JAPANESE IN SINGAPORE. RAILWAY TO THAILAND RESTORED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 16. The Domei Agency reports that war debris has been cleared from the streets of Singapore. The railway to Bangkok has been restored. Theatres and other places of amusement are reopening soon.

flames. During the combat an Allied fighter saw a Japanese Zero on the tail of one of our aircraft and about to shoot it down. Although his gun was, jammed, the Allied pilot without hesitation turned on the Japanese fighter, rammed it with his starboard wing and tore off the cockpit of the enemy aircraft, which crashed. Despite the loss of part of his wing, the Allied pilot landed his aircraft. In a series of dogfights several other enemy aircraft were hit and severely damaged.

Eyewitnesses arriving in Australia from Thursday Island are reported to have stated that eight Japanese bombers. escorted by nine fighters, took part in the raid on Saturday. Thursday Island is thirty miles from the Queensland Coast.

„„ • -«->■ r-' ~-r,'.“,*•5 ENEMY LOSSES JAPANESE FREIGHTER & TANKER. SUNK BY AMERICAN SUBMARINES. LONDON. March 16. Units of the United States Navy have sunk two enemy vessels in Far Eastern waters. One of them, a Japanese freighter, was sunk by an American submarine during extensive operations in Japanese waters. The other was a 3,000 ton Japanese tanker, which was sunk in the Philippine area. NO ACTIVITY. ON PHILIPPINES FRONT. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 16. A morning communique says; There has been no activity in the Philippines. “In New Britain, on March 13, a single American Flying Fortress, while on reconnaisance patrol, attacked the Japanese-held Vunkanau aerodrome at Rabaul. Several bombs were dropped on the runways inflicting considerable damage. A direct hit was scored on parked aircraft, destroying at least two enemy planes. Our plane returned to its bases undamaged.”