JAPANESE BOMB

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1942, Page 4

JAPANESE BOMB

IN SOUTH OREGON FOREST

INVESTIGATION IN PROGRESS.

PLANE MAY HAVE COME FROM SUBMARINE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.55 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, September 15. . The Western Defence. Command is investigating the possibility of a Japanese plane having dropped an incendiary bomb on the southern Oregon coast on September 9, in the first aerial attack on continental United Lieutenant-General Dewitt has issued a communique, stating that personnel of the United States Forestry Service discovered bomb fragments, bearing Japanese markings, near Mount Emily, north of Brookings. Ai 6 a.m. on September 9, a small, unidentified seaplane was observed coming inland from the sea and at 6.24 a.m. a forestry observer saw a seaplane come from the west and circle to return to the sea. The plane did not bear any insignia and was of a type which might be carried on a submarine. At 11.0 a.m. an Army patrol plane sighted and bombed an unidenified submarine, 30 miles off shore, in the same general vicinity. The results are not known, but at 12.20 p.m. a small fire was observed 3 miles south of Mount Emily. Forestry patrols found a small crater in which were 401bs of metal. The fragments bore Japanese ideographs, possibly indicating an arsenal where the bomb was manufactured.