SUNDAY ISLANDS
BOMBED BY RAIDERS
LONDON, February 17. Today's Batavia communique reports that the Japanese have bombed and machine-gunned several places on the small Sunday Islands between Java and Sumatra, causing casualties but re-
latively small material damage.
Other places in the Sula Islands, east of the Moluccas, were bombed and machine-gunned. There, also, little material damage was done, but several people were killed and wounded.
Netherlands bombers shot down two Japanese fighters during a raid on an enemy aerodrome at Palembang, in south-east Sumatra.. Bombers also scored a direct hit on a Japanese transport and probably hit another.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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