SOUTH PACIFIC LULL

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1943, Page 1

SOUTH PACIFIC LULL

MONDAY VERY QUIET The Weather Bad [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Rec. 9.5) SYDNEY, April 27-. Monday was the quietest day for months in the South-west Pacific war. According to General MacArthur’s communique to-day, there was bad weather over the Coral Sea' and over the entire North-eastern section. This caused the lull. Practically all missions listed in the communique were carried out by single bombers, on armed reconneaissance. One Flying Fortress was over Übili, Arawe, and Gasmata, in New Britain, on Monday afternoon. At. Gasmata’ a radio tower and building were destroyed. Formations of Boston bombers, cooperating with Allied ground patrols, straffed enemy positions on Green Hill, about a mile north-east of Mubo. in northern New Guinea, where there is a small Japanese force now entrenched. THE SOLOMONS. TWO AIR FIGHTS. WASHINGTON, April 27. A United States Navy communique states: “South Pacific: Early- in the morning of Sunday, four Corsair fighters strafed Japanese installations at Kolombangara Island, Central Solomons. Later, the same group of Corsairs sighted ten enemy bombers, escorted by twenty Zeros, ninety-five miles north-west of Lunga point, Guadalcanal Island. During the aerial combat which followed, five Zeros were shot down. Two United States planes failed to return.”