JAPANESE SUPPLIES
DESTROYED BY BOMBERS
Rec 9 a.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 22. Liberator bombers from the Southwest Pacific Command at the weekend unloaded 138 tons of bombs on a big Japanese supply dump area at Ring Ring plantation, near Gasmata, in New Britain. Apart from the Rabaul raids, this was the heaviest strike to date on an enemy base in New Britain. Our bombers left the entire dump area in smoking ruins.
A 10,000-ton enemy cargo ship was left in flames and, when last observed, was being abandoned by its crew sKter an attack by a United States Navy Catalina in St. George's Channel, in New Britain, on Friday night. The vessel was in a convoy which also included two destroyers and two
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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122JAPANESE SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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