WILD STORIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1943, Page 4

WILD STORIES

OF ALLEGED AIR & NAVAL VICTORIES BROADCAST BY JAPANESE f AND RELAYED BY BERLIN (By Telegraph—-Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 11. The Allied and Japanese fleets are fighting a big naval action off Bougainville Island, in the Northern Solomons, says the Berlin radio, quoting a Tokio report. The radio said there had also been major air clashes and that at least 10,000 United States troops had been killed. The United States Office of War Information said recent enemy reports of Pacific actions had been the most amazing propaganda displays of the war. The office was commenting specifically on the Tokio radio claim that 96 Allied vessels had been sunk or damaged and 268 planes shot down in the Pacific in the past ten days. The Japanese Premier, General Tojo, cabled his congratulations to the Com-mander-in-Chief of the Japanese Fleet (Admiral Koga) on these “overwhelming sea and air victories.” The Berlin radio added: “These successive great war results have startled the enemy camp. When the news of the latest disaster is fully known to the American public it will send American morale crashing. The Japanese Press has carried sweeping banner headlines hailing the greatest naval victory since the attack on Pearl Harbour.