THE PHILIPPINES
JAPANESE PREPARATIONS
(Special P.A. Correspondent.)
SYDNEY. September 24. " Tokio radio claims that Japan now has superior numerical strength in the Philippines, and is making great efforts to increase the garrison's supply of war equipment.
"The time for the decisive battle is rapidly approaching,'' said the radio Munitions are being rushed to the Philippines to guarantee that the Japanese forces there will not make futile the heroic death met by many Japanese warriors on small Pacific islands before the overwhelming material odds of the enemy." ■ The broadcast claimed that the Americans had moved three or four powerful naval task forces into the Philippines area. Their components included the new aircraft-carriers Bunker Hill, Enterprise, Lexington and Hornet, many converted carriers, battleships, cruisers, and destroyers 1" laurel's puppet Government of the Philippines has declared war on Britain and America, according to the Japanese news agency Another heavy raid by American airciaft on the Philippines is reported by Tokio official radio. "Early today 200 enemy planes bombed Lagaspi Cebu and other cities in the central Philippines, said the radio. "The extent of the enemy losses which our interceptors inflicted is at present un&£lo^ details are stm «»**
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 74, 25 September 1944, Page 6
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