INDIAN OCEAN
Attack On Island Group REPORT FROM TOKIO (By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—(’opyright.) (Receive’d October 19, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 19. “An Allied task force has been bombing and shelling the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean, since Tuesday, says Tokio official radio. The attack was directed against Car Nicobar, the northernmost Island. Twenty-four carrier planes, five of which were shot down, attacked on Tuesday morning. Another wave followed next dav, when a naval bombardment began. The Japanese counter-attacked today. when one carrier and one destroyer were sunk.” The Nicobar Islands, which were British territory, lie about 290 miles northwest of the northernmost tip of Sumatra, about 800 miles’ in the same direction from Singapore and approximately 800 ■miles south from Rangoon. They are also 1000 miles east of Admiral Mount-batten’s.’south-east Asia command headquarters in Ceylon.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 22, 20 October 1944, Page 5
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