BRITISH BOMB ANDAMANS
Flying-Boat Base Hit (By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—-Copyright.) LONDON, April 14. A communique issued in New Delhi says that 13 Japanese flyingboats were destroyed or damaged in a Royal Air Force raid on Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands. One of a concentration of enemy aircraft was left in a sinking condition, two were set on fire and the remainder were damaged. The communique adds that British planes have been active over the area for the past three days. LONDON, April 14. A message from Bombay says that tens of thousands of civilians are leaving Madras daily. Offices and banks are being transferred from Madras into the interior. The Government is helping the evacuation of civilians. According to a report received in Stockholm, Chandra Bose, at a meeting in Berlin, proclaimed: “If the Indians destroy the British strongpoints in India I can guarantee that the Tripartite Powers will leave India in peace.” [Bose, formerly known as an Indian Nationalist, who went over to the enemy when Japan entered the war, was recently reported by an enemy source to have been killed in an aircraft accident.]
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 171, 16 April 1942, Page 5
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