NOTABLE SUCCESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1942, Page 3

NOTABLE SUCCESS

GAINED IN NEW GUINEA TWENTY JAPANESE PLANES/ DESTROYED OR SERIOUSLY DAMAGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 30. It is believed that the Allied bombing raid of Lae, the Japanese base in New Guinea, on Tuesday ' was one of the biggest and most successful of the war in the southwest Pacific. An Allied communique from Australia reveals that 20 enemy planes were destroyed or seriously / damaged on an airfield and large fires vzere started. None of the attacking planes were lost. A United States spokesman at the Allied headquarters said that the Japanese adopted new tactics in their raid yesterday on Port Moresby by concentrating on one objective —an aerodrome. In the previous raids the Japanese had showered bombs on a number of targets. - SOUTH=WEST PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.36 a.m.) RUGBY, April 30. South-West Pacific headquarters report:—“Enemy aircraft attacked our aerodromes at Port Moresby three times on Wednesday. “Our air . force successfully bombed Lae aerodrome, destroying or serious-

ly damaging 20 enemy planes on the ground. “There has been a minor Allied attack on Koepang, in Timor and on Saumlaki, in Yamdena Island, north of Darwin. “At Corregidor there l has been heavy bombing of the fort and harbour area and the fortified islands'were extensively shelled. Our counter-battery work silenced three enemy batteries and destroyed a truck column. “An enemy landing has taken place, from five transports, at Parang, in Mindanao.”