SHIPPING ATTACKED.
MacARTHUR’S PLANES ACTIVE.
FIVE SHIPS SUNK, SIX WRECKED. (Rec. 3 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Shipping at Sorong, the last remaining effective Japanese base in Dutch New Guinea, has been heavily hit by General Mac Arthur’s air forces. Two 3000-ton and three smaller freightertransports Avere sunk, two 1500-ton freighter-transports destroyed or seriously damaged and six coastal vessels weeked.
As a result of the attack on Friday on the Japanese plane strength at Sorong, Avhen 50 machines were destroyed, there Avas no enemy air interference. On Diak Island the Japanese dead counted number 1655. About 120 enemy troops Avere killed during the American advance on Saturday.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 212, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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