MUBO TAKEN STREAM OF SUPPLIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1943, Page 3

MUBO TAKEN

STREAM OF SUPPLIES

FOR ALLIES IN THE PACIFIC. < NEW YORK, July 16. Allied strength in the Pacific had undergone an extraordinary change during the past few months, Lieuten-ant-General Robert Richardson, comrnandqr of the Hawaiian Department of the United States Army, told the "New York Times” Honolulu correspondent. The trickle of planes which passed through Honolulu a year ago was now a stream, and' in the not too distant future would be a torrent, he said. A similar statement was also made by the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, Admiral C.

W. Nimitz, who added that the Japan--1 ese base on Kiska Island, in the Aleutians, had been neutralised. HEAVY DRAIN ON JAPANESE SHIPPING. TWO VESSELS SUNK FOR EACH ONE BUILT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 15. Two Japanese ships were being sunk tor each one the Japanese could build, Admiral Emery S. Land, chairman of the United States Maritime Commission, said in a statement published in Washington today. America had produced more tonnage in one month than the Japanese shipyards had built since the beginning of the war. The Japanese had been able to produce only 1,200,000 tons of shipping since the outbreak, and 116 of their warships and 300 cargo ships, totalling 2,224,600 tons had been sunk.