JAPANESE FEAT
SEIZURE OF SOLOMONS
CAPITAL
(Rec. 2 p.m.)
POET MORESBY, February 18. -■Kieta, the administrative capital of the Solomon islands, was.captured on January 23 by two Japanese airmen armed only with a Japanese flag, states a Kieta Government official who has reached Port Moresby after an eventful voyage of a thousand miles in a mission ketch, without charts or navigating instruments, during which the vessel was often grounded on a maae of reefs. Kieta was completely undefended. After reconnaissance flights over' the town for several days, a Japanese seaplane landed in the bay. Two Japanese airmen rowed ashore and planted the Japanese flag on the beach. There was no opposition from the civilians, who evacuated the town.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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118JAPANESE FEAT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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