HEAVY TOLL OF SHIPPING
SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC AREA SEVERAL SHIPS DESTROYED (Received Nov. 18, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 17 A heavy toll of Japanese shipping in the New Britain—Northern Solomons area continues to be taken by General MacAithur’s aircraft. A 6000-ton cargo chip in a convoy off New Ireland was attacked by reconnaissance units, receiving two direct hits forward of the bridge. Beaufighters in a low-level sweep along the New Britain coast strafed and sank three enemy coastal vessels.
At Hansa .Say, Northern New Guinea, a 2500-tcn vessel was left sinking by the stern after two direct hits had been scored by a reconnaissance bomber. In the Solomons and along the north New Guinea coast a number of enemy barges have beer, attacked.
Seven Japanese aircraft have beer, definitely destroyed and five others probably destroyed in other operations reported in General MacArthur's communique today.
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Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22198, 18 November 1943, Page 5
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