IN PROGRESS IN SOLOMONS
Heavy Fighting in Guadalcanal* FOLLOWING ON LANDING OF JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS DEVELOPMENTS IN OTHER PACIFIC AREAS LONDON, October IG. With the Solomons battle in its fourth day and land, sea and air forces heavily engaged, a large number of Japanese troops have been landed on Guadalcanar Island and heavy land fighting is now in progress. The American positions are being heavily shelled. This information is given in a United States Navy Department communique. On Tuesday morning American aircraft damaged nine Japanese aircraft on the ground in the Solomons area. During the following night United States light craft probably scored a torpedo hit on an enemy cruiser. A United States 'Navy Department spokesman said that stern fighting was continuing, but no complete view would be obtained till the action was finished. So far as the land fighting was concerned, all the information available was being released as quickly as possible.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19421017.2.23.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
152IN PROGRESS IN SOLOMONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in