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ENEMY NAVAL ACTIVITY INCREASE ROUND RABAUL BASE. AIR BATTLES IN NEW GUINEA. • ■ • (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 7. Japanese naval activity round the enemy’s main southward base at Rabaul in New Britain is increasing. This warning was issued in a High Command communique from General MacArthur’s headquarters. The communique states that enemy naval'units at Bougainville in the Solomons are reported to have been successfully attacked by Allied bombers. News of increased enemy naval activity in the South-West Pacific area coincides with reports of diminished Japanese air efforts over New Guinea, where a great air battle has been raging for the past ten days. The losses inflicted on the enemy are reported to have been severe. Port Moresby was earlier attacked by enemy planes several times daily. These attacks have now become sporadic. It is reported officially that the Japanese are now using the Mitsubishi 539 type of fighters, an obsolete 1939 model. This may indicate a temporary shortage of the crack Zero fighters. However, the first series of heavy enemy raids on Port Moresby was also followed by a lull, which was merely a prelude to still heavier enemy raids.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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