OVER WIDE AREA
JAPANESE PLANES ACTIVE
(Rec. 11 a,m.) RUGBY, Jan. 26
A Dutch communique says:
"During the past twenty-four horn's enemy aircraft has been active in small numbers over a wide area. In an attack on a Netherlands Indies aerodrome two enemy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft fire and one by a Dutch fighter.
"An. aerodrome in the outer provinces was heavily bombed by Japanese bombers which came over in three waves of 27 aircraft and succeeded in interrupting telephone communications.
"There were no casualties and none of our aircraft was lost. Afterwards the same aerodrome was machinegunned by four fighters without result."— 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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