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GAINED BY DEFENDERS IN PHILIPPINES REPORT FROM MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS. INCREASE IN ENEMY NAVAL STRENGTH. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 29. Reports from General MacArthur’s Headquarters indicate that Japanese air attacks on Corregidor and other forts at the entrance to Manila Bay have been lessening in intensity. Most of the attacks in the past two days have been made with dive bombers. “Our forts,” a communique stales, “were heavily shelled by Japanese batteries on the Cavite shore and Baffin Our guns returned, the fire, silencing some batteries and breaking up troop concentrations. A medium-sized armed vessel operated by the enemy in Manila Bay was sunk by our guns. •“.Enemy detachments are advancing against patrols from our small units near the southern end of the Cazayan Valley, in the mountains of Northern Luzon. In Panay our troops are continuing their resistance. Enemy patrols have been largely concentrated at ports and in the coastal areas of the island. There has been an increase m enemy naval strength near the Visayan Islands, in the central part of the Philippines.”

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1942, Page 6

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177

DETAIL SUCCESSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1942, Page 6

DETAIL SUCCESSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1942, Page 6

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