HOSPITAL IN BATAN
BOMBED BY JAPANESE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES CAUSED. LAUNCH SUNK IN MANILA BAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 31. A Philippine communique says: “At noon on March 30, the base hospital at Balan was bombed by the Japanese, causing a number of casualties. This hospital is plainly marked and had been carefully avoided by enemy bombers until yesterday. “Both day and night air raids on our harbour defences continue intermittently. Thus far they have caused little damage. Day raids yesterday were accompanied by fire from the enemy shore batteries Cavite Province. The guns of our forts' returned the fire. A battery firing from Fort Hughes destroyed a launch in Manila Bay.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1942, Page 3
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