ANOTHER ISLAND
OCCUPIED BY JAPANESE IN SOLOMONS ALLIED PLANES ATTACKING NEW AIRFIELDS. EVENTS IN NEW GUINEA & ELSEWHERE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, August 2. The Japanese have occupied another island in the Solomons Group. The latest communiques from General MacArthur’s headquarters indicate that the enemy is now in possession of Guadalcanal-, a large island south of Tulagi and 1000 miles from Townsville. This revelation of new Japanese infiltration closes the most strenuous week of land and air fighting in the south-west. Pacific war. A general headquarters spokesman states that the Japanese appear to be constructing several aerodromes on Guadalcanal’, which is one of the fewislands in the Solomons lending itself to the construction of airfields. These enemy works near Kukum on the north coast were attacked by our bombers on both Friday and Saturday. In Friday’s raid direct hits were scored on a supply dump and on a large cargo ship off the shore. On Saturday, fires were started when enemy installations were bombed. Japanese activities on Guadalcanalare stated to have first become evident about six weeks ago, but since then enemy troop reinforcements have reached the island. They are known to include labour units and aerodrome ground crews with a protecting force. The Papuan land and air battle for mastery in the Kokoda-Gona area continues day and night. 'Bombing raids have been made on the enemy base at Gona. Our fighters on Saturday attacked enemy positions at Kokoda where advanced elements of opposing land forces are still in contact. The situation here is reported to be static. The wharf and harbour at Kai Islands, in the Banda Sea, have been attacked by our bombers, one of which is missing. An Allied reconnaissance unit over Rabaul, New Britain, shot down an intercepting enemy fighter. The Japanese have made ineffectual single plane raids on Horn Island in the Torres Straits and Port Moresby. Allied aircraft on Friday and Saturday attacked a single enemy cruiser in the Banda Sea, south of Amboina Island. On Friday a probable hit was scored. Our bombers on Saturday bombed and machine-gunned a cruiser in the same area. Bad visibility made it impossible to determine the extent of the damage caused. These attacks are reported in separate communiques and it is not revealed whether the same enemy cruiser or two different cruisers were attacked.
CHILD INJURED FIRST CIVILIAN RAID CASUALTY. ON AUSTRALIAN EAST COAST. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 2. The first civilian air-raid casualty on Australia’s east coast was the 2|-year-old daughter of Italian-born sugar cane growers, living near Mossman, Queensland, where a Japanese plane jettisoned a bomb last week. The child is in hospital with a fractured skull, but is now out of danger. The bomb fell 30 yards from the family’s galvanised iron cottage, shrapnel smashing furniture and fittings. A bomb fragment went through the interior walls and struck the child, who was sleeping in her cot. Kittyhawk pilots who shot down two enemy bombers and seven Zeros over Darwin on Thursday, losing only one Allied machine, say that no Japanese pilot was seen to parachute. This confirms the theory that Japanese pilots are under an order not to bail out over enemy territory. Japanese fighter pilots whose planes have been shot down over theii’ own bases, have been known, to parachute.
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