WARSHIP OFF RABAUL.
LAST OFFICIAL INFORMATION. JAPANESE CLAIM LANDING MELBOURNE, January 25. The Minister for the Army announced that the 'Port Moresby radio had been silent since midnight on Friday. The Port Moresby headquarters of the military commandant, Major-General B. M. Morris, had been the only source of Australian information about Japanese activity in New Guinea. Before the station went off the air Major-General Morris informed the Government that air reconnaissance showed 11 merchant ships in Rabaul harbour at 7 p.m. on Friday. Five miles off the entrance to Rabaul were three cruisers, one destroyer and one aircraft carrier. From this report it must be presumed that Japanese forces had landed at Rabaul. No news had been received of a battle being in progress. The Tokio radio claims that Japanese military and naval forces landed near Rabaul at dawn on Friday. The same day Japanese marines landed at Kaviang in New Ireland. The War Cabinet sat alf day yesterday and to-day.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 89, 26 January 1942, Page 3
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