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AMERICANS ON MINDANAO (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Apl. 25. General MacArthur’s communique to-day states: “ The Twenty-fourth Division on Mindanao, with air support, swept forward 16 miles on highway one against scattered resistance. We have now reached hill country. Our guerrilla forces on Luzon, with air support, captured Vigan. and its adjacent airfield, and also Bantay, along the north-west coast. Except for scattered enemy remnants now being mopped up, , the entire Ilocossur province is cleared. “ Mediums bombed Matsuyama aerodrome, Taito, and Formosa. Heavies attacked blockade runners in Yulin Harbour, Hainan, sinking a 4000-ton freighter - transport, three smaller freighters, and 15 barges. They probably sank a 1000-ton freighter-trans-port. Air patrols bombed installations near Shanghai, sank a freighter off Hongkong, and left a freighter sinking off Southern Indo-China. Other aircraft bombed Seppinggan, Jesselton. and Tabanio aerodromes, in Borneo.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25829, 27 April 1945, Page 5
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