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JAPANESE SHIPS GUADALCANAR BID TROOP-LANDING MOVE SEVERE BLOW TO ENEMY (By Telegraph — Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Noon.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. The Navy Department announced that the Japanese attehipted to land reinforcements on Guadalcanal Nine Japanese warships and auxiliaries were sunk.
A Navy Department communique states; “On Tuesday army and navy aircraft continued daylight attacks against enemy positions on Guadalcanal On Wednesday United States Marines attacked a patrol of 60 Japanese near the upper Lunga River. Thirty-five of the enemy were killed and a quantity of arms and ammunition captured. In another encounter between United States and enemy patrols in the Matanikau area 20 Japanese were killed.” The Navy Department states that the army and Marine Corps troops on Guadalcanar are engaged in extensive patrols along the outskirts of the American positions. Several of the patrols encountered the enemy, inflicted casualties and captured arms, including three guns and six machine-guns.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 3
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