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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 30 April 1942, Page 6

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jataxies in pr»u*M or IXSHIQ CHUNGKING, April ?9.—lt 4 » os- - announced that the Japanese ! have reached the suburb of Lushio j MALTA’S DEFENCES ) I STOCKHOLM, April 29.—Berlin sources attribute the sudden stiffen- I of Malta's defences to the arrival I of American fighters. A spokesman points out this ties up with President | Roosevelt’s declaration that Ameri- ! will tight anywhere in the wofld ; '-‘here Axj& forces can V>e found CJer- ; reports do not specify how the American planes reached Malta, but ?Ugge?t that American warships, pro. including an aircraft-carrier i were responsible for their arrival j TRAFFIC IN COUPONS LONDON. April 29.—Maurice Green- • 1 field, managing director of a women's 1 hat manufacturers, was fined £79Bb on 1 ! a charge of unlawfully using 30.30& coupons (or the purpose of obtaining rationed good*- The company was ! fined Si'oj’So, Alfred Levy, ec*m- , ' aifty employee, was sentenced to youths’ imprisonment and was fined : £IOO on a charge of unlawfully j fejTiAS 30,000 coupons contrary to the I consumer rationing order. —FA AIK ATTACKS IN NEW GUINEA ! MJaUJOURNE, Tliis Day—" Allied , aircraft on Tuesday destroyed a large ammunition dump in an attack on Lae," states a communique issued b' Allied Geueral Headquarters. "We suffered no losses. Eight Japane.-e' i ‘bombers with an escort of 14 Zcroi i > ! raided Fort Moresby aerodrome, caus- , mg slight damage. The United I i states spokesman at Die headquart- 1 ers sa>d the Japanese had adopted ; up-tics m the ryid "q For+ Moresby by concent/a ling op, ope obj aerodrome la prevjpuj ftlds the Japanese Ujowved bomb# a number target; A