The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1942.
Air Forces Of MacArthur Batter Japs In Dutch Timor
Jap Bombers Rain Fierce Blows On Port Moresby After Weekend Victory
(By The .Associated Press)
Sustaining their counter-offensive on the invasion
approaches to Australia, the airmen of the MacArthur
command struck today at the Japanese right wing in Dutch
Timor after having wrecked some two score of the enemy's
planes in operations over the weekend.
Despite the heavy losses, ' mostly hard-to-replace
fighter planes, the Japanese sent a bomber and fighter
force against Port Moresby today in what Australians admitted
was the heaviest attack of the war on that city.
British Planes Join Air Patrol
London, March 23 (AP)—A Reuters
dispatch from Havana, Cuba,
today said British aircraft had arrived
there to join United States
air patrols operating from Cuba
against Axis U-boats.
The British planes flew over the
Cuban capital and dipped in salute
to cheering crowds, the British News
agency said.----
Rome
Italian Ships
Cripple Big
British Convoy
Rome (from Italian broadcasts),
March 23 (AP)—A heavy naval engagement
was reported raging today
off the North African coast, with
Italian warships hammering at a
big British convoy which, the high
command said, has been crippled by
Axis torpedo-carrying planes in a
running fight. The convoy was en-route
to Malta.
London
British Hit Italian Ships; Sink Six
London, March 23 (AP)—British
submarines, striking with torpedoes
and shellfire within sight of watchers
on the coasts of Italy and her
Albanian vassal state, have sunk two
Italian submarines, two supply ships,
six schooners and a troop-jammed
motor ship, the Admiralty announced today.
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