IN AMERICAN HANDS
LARGEST ISLAND IN ELLICE GROUP JAPANESE RAID DOES MINOR DAMAGE. MORE ATTACKS ON ENEMY IN SOLOMONS. LONDON, April 23. A Washington communique discloses that American forces in the South Pacific now hold the largest island in the Ellice group, more than 1,000 miles east of the Solomons.
Minor damage was done when Japanese bombers raided the island early yesterday. The island was occupied without opposition. The communique did not say when the island was occupied. It is believed that if the Japanese had forces on the island previously, they were small.
In the Solomons American aircraft have made more attacks on Japanese positions. It is believed that an enemy ship was hit in the Shortland Island area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1943, Page 3
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