JAPANESE TENACITY
RABAUL REINFORCED
(Special P.A. Correspondent.)
SYDNEY, November 9. In spite of their crippling losses in ships and planes, the Japanese are continuing to reinforce Itabaul. The latest aerial reconnaissance reports say that on Saturday and Sunday enemy convoys were seen moving over a wide area of the Pacific, and the pattern of this widespread movement suggests strongly that the Japanese are determined to strengthen their Rabaul position.
The largest convoy reported comprised 19 ships, and several of the other groups included from two to six warships.
Widespread operations are listed in General Mac Arthur's latest communique, which claims that the Japanese losses in the weekend were as follows:—
Sixty-three aircraft destroyed, 16 probably destroyed, a corvette, five small cargo vessels, and nine barges sunk, 25 barges damaged, and two destroyers damaged by possible hits or near misses.
The main losses were inflicted when Liberators, escorted by Lightning
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 114, 10 November 1943, Page 5
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