THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
BISMARCK, N. D., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1942
Large Scale Battle Looms for
Bizerte Base; Axis Outnumbered
Allied Jungle Fighters Close in an Buna
Result of Running
Sea Battle Still
Is Undecided
WASHINGTON— (AP) —
Japanese and American warships
sparred with each other
in a battle of maneuver Monday
as Allied jungle fighters
closed in on the enemy stronghold
at Buna, New Guinea.
The navy reported that a "determined
effort" is underway by the
Japanese to recapture positions in
the Guadalcanal-Tulagi area of the
Solomon islands, but said details
would be withheld until the outcome
of a running sea battle is decided.
The action at sea was described
as "hit and run, hide and seek,
touch and go."
"Numerous enemy surface
forces are active in the South*
eastern Solomons In an attempt
to reinforce the enemy troops
now on Guadalcanal and to disrupt
our delivery of supplies to
our forces which now occupy
shore positions in this area,"
the navy reported. "The engagements
are continuing."
Japs Claim Eight
Allied Ships Sunk
In Fight Oct. 26
NEW YORK-UP) —A Japanese
imperial headquarters in a revised
report of the Oct. 26 naval battle
east of the Solomons Monday asserted
the Japanese sank one battleship,
two aircraft carriers identified
as the U. S 8. Enterprise and |
Hornet, another large-type aircraft
carrier, three cruisers and one destroyer.
Jap Claims False for
Most Part, Says Davis
WASHINGTON — (AP)~ New
claims by the Japanese high
command of having sunk eight
United States warships, including
three aircraft carriers, in
the Oct. 26 action off the Solomons,
Monday were branded
"false for the most part" by
Elmer Davis, director of the Office
of War Information.
"As far as I know our loss was
one carrier and one destroyer,
as previously announced by the
navy," Davis said. "I have every
reason to believe the navy Is
telling me the truth."
Damage to American fleet
units in the naval-air battle
currently raging in the Solomons
area probably will not be made
known until the action finally
Is broken off, Davis said.
Hitler Orders
Nazis to Hang on
At Any Cost
Hitler Orders
Nazis to Hang on
At Any Cost
BULLETIN
LONDON—(AP)—Reuters said
it had ordered a broadcast by
the Morocco radio reporting
that Adolf Hitler had ordered
German forces In Tunisia to
hold on at any cost.
By JAMES~M. LONG
Associated Press War Editor
The Axis admitted Mon-
day that it had moved Ger-
man and Italian forces into
the French protectorate of
Tunisia, and British and
American fighting men came
to grips with them there with
an evident determination to
give Hitler and Mussolini a
taste of Dunquerque.
An Italian communique said "Italian
and German troops have landed
in Tunisia v 1th the approval of clvil
and military French authorities"
Whatever French civil and mill-
tary authorities the Italians had in
mind in this version, they obviously;
did not include stout-hearted French
garrisons of the Bizerte naval base
and the Tunis airfields who wel-
corned the invaders only with bullets
and put up what resistance their
limited force permitted.
Jap Claims False for
Most Part, Says Davis
WASHINGTON — (AP)~ New
claims by the Japanese high
command of having sunk eight
United States warships, including
three aircraft carriers, in
the Oct. 26 action off the Solomons,
Monday were branded
"false for the most part" by
Elmer Davis, director of the Office
of War Information.
"As far as I know our loss was
one carrier and one destroyer,
as previously announced by the
navy," Davis said. "I have every
reason to believe the navy Is
telling me the truth."
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