ANOTHER RAID

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1942, Page 5

ANOTHER RAID

On Port Moresby

FOUR JAP PLANES HIT.

[Aust. & N.Z. Cable As«n.)

(Rec. 11.15) MELBOURNE, May 21. The Allied General Headquarters of the South-West Pacific in a communique to-day, reports that twelve enemy fighter planes made a straffing attack on the Port Moresby aerodrome. They were intercepted by Allied fighter planes which damaged four of the raiders.

JAP AIRBASES Bombed on Timor

(Rec. 11.15) MELBOURNE, May 21 Allied Air Force planes on Tuesday attacked the aerodrome and installations at Koepang in Dutch Timor. Two Japanese aircraft were destroyed on the ground, and buildings were set on fire. An enemy seaplane base at Dilli, in Portuguese Timor,. was also attacked on Tuesday. No details of this attack are given. These operations were reported in to-day’s communique of the Allied SouthrWest Pacific G.H.Q. 55.000 Australians MAKING MUNITIONS AND WAR EQUIPMENT. (Rec. 12.9). CANBERRA, May 21. The number of workers employed in the production of munitions and of military equipment throughout Australia, is now in the vicinity of fift'v thousand. There will be double that number in twelve mon'xs time.’ These figures are provided bv the Minister for Munition Making,. who stated that, at the outbreak of r.var, the number of workers making munitions did not exceed five thousand,