WAKE ISLAND BOMBED

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24640, 9 August 1945, Page 5

WAKE ISLAND BOMBED

COMMUNIQUE FROM NIMITZ

(Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. The following communique has been issued by Admiral Nimitz: “Our aird-aft shot down four enemy planes and damaged military installations near the China coast on August 4 “They^ bombed Wake Island yesterday, destroying or damaging small craft, buildings, and other installations. “Search privateers yesterday sank four small cargo ships in the Tsushima Straits. Privateers to-day sank a dooloot cargo ship off the south coast of Honshu.”

ILS. 3KD FLEET

MORE ATTACKS ON JAPAN LIKELY

(Rec. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON August 7. A Navy broadcast revealed that the United States 3rd Fleet is again off Japan, and “will soon loose more destruction to vital coastal installations. The broadcast added that the fleet had maintained a week-long silence because it was avoiding a threatening ty Admiral Halsey’s ships suffered damage in a typhoon on June 5, and to avoid a repetition of the trouble, the 3rd Fleet, moved to safe waters.

defences at Manokawi. Bombers of the Royal Australian Air Force sank a coaster and damaged other watercraft in north-western New Guinea, and supported ground operations in the Wewak area. ' “Planes of the Marine Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force struck at troop concentrations and supplies in Rabaul and attacked isolated enemy groups in Bougainville.’’