SOLOMONS AREA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 237, 7 October 1942, Page 3

SOLOMONS AREA

JAPANESE LANDING

Small Reinforcements Ashore In Night Operation

United Press Association—Copyright Th« t- WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. The Lnited States Vaw -r, sa?sSd sasss st?VSw" week. four-day period last in- ! snr; 7 H P r a^nf e Kucccede ' l m landcanar at nfirh» ? r \ ents on Guadalare niainSil 1 tlle marines There £ lr Positions, emfmy pafrols. 21113,1 C,3shcs with three e hhs n scored V»\ . on a Japanese cruiser Guadalcanar. 0 Gnemy lroo P s on ?nd a Ef ay bombed andstrafJd stmvwi Cn . en^ y sea planes were de "i: l ?.io d fires observed, savs a another ■ C i S u Navy communique. In setfirp F fo here our dive-bombers hoL . ° munitions dumps and Pnwr ß lwo enem y aircraft. Paying off thfn set fi - r ? to a small boat off the Greenwich Islands, at the whiio GaSt °V d of Malaita Island attacks r!n dlve - b °mbers continued en «my troop concentrations and supply dumps on Guadaltanar.

r\7£\i\nJ ap aga,n attacked Guadalcanar with a small group of bombers heavily escorted by fighters the communique adds. Our intercept tors shot down four enemy fighters. No bombs were dropped. Another report states that in the four days up to last Friday five raids were carried out on Japanese bases in the Solomons. Four destroyers were attacked, one being damaged south of the New Georgia group.