CONTINUED SUCCESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1942, Page 3

CONTINUED SUCCESS

OF BRITISH SUBMARINES IN MEDITERRANEAN ANOTHER FIVE AXIS SHIPS SUNK. TANKER & MERCHANT VESSEL TORPEDOED. ' LONDON, October 21. British submarines in the Mediterranean have sunk another live Axis supply ships. On Monday, between Malta and Africa, torpedoes hit a tanker and merchant ship.

LOSSES OF SHIPS 0 IN THE WESTERN ATLANTIC. b (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) ' (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 21. The Naw Department has disclosed the loss, by torpedoing, of three merchantmen off the northern coast of South America and in the Atlantic. The total United Nations losses in the Western Atlantic since Pearl Harbour (December 7, 1941) are 497 ships, according to an unofficial compilation. REFUGEES FROM BURMA « . NOW ARRIVING IN INDIA, AFTER BEING HELD UP BY RAINS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) CALCUTTA, October 21. As a result of a respite from monsoons refugees who were cut off for months in the Burmese jungle by torrential rain are now arriving in India. The refugees were kept alive for months by supplies dropped from aircraft, which crossed treacherous mountains through heavy, air-pocketed clouds. Guides from Assam attempted to bring groups of refugees back, butfound some of them in such a bad state that they had to await better weather and medical supplies. British officers and British and Indian troops are constantly patrolling large areas of northern Burma, gaining information about the enemy’s dispositions._*

NO MIRACLES PROMISED BY ADMIRAL KING. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON, October 21. The Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy, Admiral King, in a speech in New York, said: “Though America is still fighting a two-ocean war, with a one-ocean navy, we took the offensive at Tulagi in August, and the Japanese fear and resent it. “A second-ocean navy is well on the way this year. But' there will not be any miracles in this war and no inventors to produce machines to knock out the Japanese and their planes. There is no cheap way of winning this war.” Admiral King added that officers returning from the Solomons assured him that all the services there were “in the ditch, and digging together.”