The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1942.
4,000 Portsmouth Motorists
Expected To Sign Up For Gas
To Get 3 Gallons
Per Unit Or 11
During First 45
Rationing Days
Approximately 4,000 Portsmouth autoists will register
tomorrow through Thursday for their war allotment of
gasoline/ After 7 am Friday they will receive only as much
gas as allowed by their ration cards.
The average motorist, the person not engaged in vital
work and using his car only for pleasure, will be allowed
three gallons of fuel per unit or 21 gallons for the 45-day
period covered by the first ration book.
Jap Toll In Coral Sea Battle Rises
To 21 As Allied Planes Are Busy
by Associated Press
The grand total of Japanese ships
sunk or crippled in the battle of
the Coral sea and-its aerial sequel
mounted today to 91, with bomb
hits over the weekend on two submarines,
a seaplane tender and a tanker.
Continuing victory over Japanese
sea power on the northeastern flank
of Australia and the supply line to
that continent-base of the United
Nations strengthened the belief that
it could be .held as a concentration
point for the eventual counter-offensive
against Japan although the
danger had not yet passed.
Competent observers at Allied
headquarters In Australia,
stressing the conservatism of
the total claims against the Japanese,
expressed belief that the
Washington summary of the sea
battle, when It is Issued, might
Include additional Japanese
transport losses.
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