AIR ATTACKS ON CORREGIDOR
NOT SO INTENSE ENEMY SHIP SUNK (Rec. noon.) Rugby, April 29. Reports from General MacArthur's headquarters in Australia indicate that Japanese air attacks on Corregidor and ether forts at the entrance to Manila Bay are lessening in intensity. Most or the attacks in the past two days were made with dive-bombers. Our forts were heavily shelled by Japanese batteries at Cavite and Batan. Our guns returned the fire, silencing some batteries and breaking up troop concentrations. A medium-sized armed vessel operated by the enemy in Manila Bay v. as sunk by our guns. Enemy detachments are advancing against patrols from our small units near the .southern end of the Cazayan valley in the mountains in northern Luzon. In Panay our tioops are continuing resistance. Enemy patrols have been largely concentrated at ports in the coastal areas of the island. There has been an increase in enemy naval strength near Visayan Islands, in the central part of the Philippines.’—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 30 April 1942, Page 2
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