BOMBING OF TOKIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1943, Page 3

BOMBING OF TOKIO

IN RAID LAST YEAR AMERICAN PLANES STARTED FROM CARRIERS. FACT REVEALED BY GENERAL DOOLITTLE (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, April 19. The American Michell bombers that raided Tokio on April 18 last year came from aircraft-carriers, the British United Press correspondent with the North African Air Force says. This year-old secret was revealed when it was reported that Major-General Doolittle, who led the attack, has 11 pilots who accompanied him then with him now in North Africa. They celebrated the anniversary. The Japanese previously speculated that the raiders came from carriers about 1200 miles north-east of Yokohama. The correspondent adds: “General Doolittle still believes that to bring the war home to Japan by raids will mean her ultimate defeat.” Senor Raymon Lavalie, former Argentine Consular Attache at Tokio, in a broadcast from New York declared that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese anti-aircraft defences committed suicide and his entirq staff was removed after the raid. A high Japanese naval official admitted that no planes were shot down. Senor Lavalie, who resigned his post as a protest against Argentine neutrality, asserted that Argentina has been he eyes and ears of the Japanese Government in the Western Hemisphere. He added that the Japanese Embassy in Argentina supplied their home Government with full reports of happenings in the United States, including 60 cables daily concerning American war production.