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JAPS. FORESEE ATTACK ON BONINS (Rec. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK,. July 11. "American forces are ■ revengefully aiming;, for the Bonins, and are sending out the Third and Fourth Pacific Fleets and the Fifty-eighth Task Force with 1.000 carrier-based planes to devour,: the. inner South Seas," declared the Tokio official radio. It pointed out that the Bonins constitute the southern stronghold of Japan's homeland. 11l another the Tokio radio stated A : very powerful. enemy fleet is cruising. hor_th-west of Tinian Island. The fleet consists of two aircraft carriers. and 30 ;cruisere and destroyers." It added that 90 planes attacked Guam yesterday.. Cruisers and destroyers shelled Japanese positions,, and other aircraft bombed Tinian and Rota. Fifty small planes and several' large planes had been observed at'Aslito airfield in Saipan.
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Evening Star, Issue 25225, 12 July 1944, Page 6
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