SOLOMONS BATTLE
AMERICANS SATISFIED
Progress Of Attack
LONDON, August 11. The exact landing points of the American forces in the Solomons are not yet known, but it is probable that the main centres of the attacks are at Tulagi and Guadalcanal. Ia Washington, Senator David Walsh, Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, stated that the United States Navy Department seemed satisfied with the progress of the American forces in the battle. Senator Walsh said that he had just telephoned Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, but declined to comment on the conversation. The Allies are keeping up their non-stop air offensive for hundreds of miles around the Solomons. A Japanese convoy which was attacked and damaged off Timor was probably laden with vital supplies for the enemy. The repeated Allied air attacks on New Guinea and New Britain are also playing* a part at a critical moment. In the latest raid on Rabaul many enemy aircraft were put out of action and an important petrol dump was destroyed. The attacks by the Allied forces in New Guinea were the biggest attacks ever carried out against the Japanese who established themselves near Kokoda. When the enemy was driven back he suffered fairly heavy casualties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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