JAP SHIPS BOMBED

Grey River Argus, 10 January 1944, Page 2

JAP SHIPS BOMBED

In S.W. Pacific TWO SUNK. ~ SYDNEY, Jan. 9. A further toll of Japanese shipping has been taken by Allied aircraft operating in the South-west Pacific area. The main destruction was near Madang in Northern New Guinea, where Catalinas at night sank a five-thousand-ton enemy tanker, and left a fifteen-hundred ton ship in flames. At Kavieng, in New Ireland, which has now been at tacked on seventeen successive days, other Catalinas bombed a destroyer and a cargo ship. . , Allied Solomons-based fighter planes continue to make offensive sweeps over Rabaul, in New Britain. Ten Zeros were shot down and four others were probably destroyed in the latest combat. Other Corsairs destroyed two troopladen barges in Blanche Bay, killing or wounded about one hundred Japanese. Two Allied planes were lost.