ALEUTIAN BOMBING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 221, 18 September 1942, Page 3

ALEUTIAN BOMBING

Americans Take Toll Of Ships, Planes And Men 500 JAPANESE KILLED NEW YORK, Sept. 17. United States planes sank two enemy ships at Kiska Island, in the Aleutians. yesterday, and also brought down six planes and killed 500 Japanese, says a communique from the headquarters of Admiral Nimitz, in Honolulu. American planes made a series of attacks on Japanese ships, aircraft and shore installations at Kiska harbour The results so far known

are: Two Japanese mine-sweepers sunk; three large cargo vessels, three submarines and several small craft damaged by bombs and machinegun fire; warehouses and supply dumps set on fire, and five enemy planes shot down. A large Japanese patrol plane was destroyed on the water. The New ' York Times Washington correspondent, commenting on American attacks on Kiska, states that experts point out that the presence of many submarines indicates that the Japanese are planning to use Kiska as a base to cut Russian and American supply lines, which explains the cost expended by the Japanese in holding an otherwise useless island.

LONDON'S FIREMEN Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 17. Fourteen hundred officers and men of the London Fire Force are to rejoin the fighting services very shortly. They were originally auxiliary firemen and were recalled during the London blitz on the understanding that they would return to their service units if required.