JAPS LIMP AWAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 5

JAPS LIMP AWAY

BLOCKING OF ENEMY BLOW

NEW CARRIER SUNK?

(By Telegrajxh—Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, November 2. Writing from the headquarters of the United States forces in the South Pacific on October 28, an Associated Press correspondent says: "A huge Japanese armada has limped away from the Solomons, licking its wounds. "In the last two days naval forces, dive-bombers, and torpedo planes pounded enemy ships which were estimated to number 40 to 50 and which had been sent from two directions in an attempt to deliver a luiock-out blow against .Guadalcanal. tft'Tfoe Japanese fleet comprised two fbeavy task forces, 150 to 200 miles apart, which approached Guadalcanal tfcom the north-east.

Douglas dive-bombers from Guadalcanal hit cruisers and destroyers off Florida Island, and one cruiser was damaged and stopped by a direct bomb hit, after which Flying Fortresses hit and set fire to a light cruiser or a heavy destroyer.

Further away, American carrierbased torpedo planes and dive-bombers sailed into the Japanese carriers.

"An American pilot said later that the flight deck of a big new Japanese carrier was completely smashed and the vessel appeared to be sinking."