WILL BOMB TOKIO
Australian Threat
LONDON, January 21. Australia's Air Minister, Mr. A. S. Drakeford, said in Melbourne today: "We have air superiority in the South-west Pacific and the enemy wjtll suffer further crushing blows here and in the Solomons." Mr. Drakeford went on to say that when the immediate threat $o< Australia's shores was removed the R.A.A.F. would not skulk at home, but before 1943 ended would surely drop bombs on Toklo.
Mac Arthur's headquarters reports bombing attacks om 10 separate points in Australia's near north, while American aircraft from Guadalcanal have been raiding the Japanese-occupied islands in the Solomons. These latter blows are widely believed to have been delivered to hamper an expected Japanese thrust against Guadalcanal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 5
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119WILL BOMB TOKIO Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 5
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