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CAUGHT NAPPING

JAPANESE AT HONG KONG DEVASTATING AMERICAN ONSLAUGHT. REJOICING IN CHUNGKING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) CHUNGKING, October 26. _ The Associated Press says Sunday's raid on Hong Kong caught the Japanese napping. The last bomb racks were emptied before the Japanese fighters challenged the bombers. There was a hot time for a few minutes, when Zeros swarmed towards the bombers, but the American fighters soon scattered the enemy. A destroyer in the harbour received a direct hit in today’s raid, in which 18 Japanese fighters were shot down when, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to intercept. New fires were added to Sunday’s devastating assault. News of these blows has been greeted with great rejoicing in Chungking, where they are taken as indicating that a big American aerial offensive has begun.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4

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133

CAUGHT NAPPING Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4

CAUGHT NAPPING Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 4

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