The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia. Sunday Morning, May 10, 1942
Allied Forces Prepare For Second
Round Battle With Japanese Fleet,
Fate Of Area Is Believed At Stake
Foe Must Try Again,
High Officials Think
United Nations Forces Pursue Nipponese, Trying
To Prevent Reassembly and Reinforcement
Of Sea Units For New Invasion Drive
Through Coral Sea Area
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,
May 9.—(INS)—American and other United Nations warships
and planes were scouring the seas northeast of Australia
tonight in grim pursuit of the remaining units of a
Japanese invasion armada repulsed in the war's greatest
naval and air battle. In the wake of a brilliant victory
achieved principally by United States forces at comparative-
ly slight cost, all Australia rejoiced tonight in the belief that
an enemy bid to strike at this continent's eastern lifelines
had been turned back in the five days and six nights of fight-
ing in the Coral sea.
U-Boats Prowl Gulf of Mexico, Sink 2 Vessels
Are First Axis Forays
Into Area—All Aboard
Merchantmen Escape,
Reach Shore
NEW ORLEANS. May 9—(INS)—
Two merchant ships
have been attacked
in the gulf of Mexico in
the first U-boat forays of World ,
War II into the gulf, the 8th naval
district headquarters at New Or-
leans announced today.
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