Current Events November 18, 1942; ENEMY BLASTED IN GUADALCANAL / NIGHT RAIDS AT BOUGAINVILLE SUCCESSFUL:

The Montana Standard

BUTTE, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 18, 1942

Allied Airmen Blast Jap Positions

Way Is Cleared

for Advance

Against Enemy

Figures on Jap

Losses May Be

Revised Upward

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—

(AP) — An upward revision of

Japanese navy losses in the

sea battle of Guadalcanal was

predicted confidently Tuesday

by naval authorities who emphasized

that the announced

total of 23 ships sunk and

seven damaged was based on

Incomplete reports from the

South Pacific war zone.

General MacArthur

Is in Field

Leading Forces

G E N E R A L Mac ARTH U R'S

HEADQUARTERS, A u s t r a l i a ,

Wednesday, Nov. 18—(U.P)—Seventeen

Japanese planes were destroyed

by Allied raiders In a

night attack on Lae, Japanese

New Guinea base, and Buin,

Japanese fleet anchorage on

Bougainville Island In ihe northern

Solomons, a communique said

today.

Lae Is the Japanese base north

of Buna, where Allied forces,

under the personal direction of

General Douglas MacArthur, are

converging Lao Is about 150

miles up the coast from Buna,

and was slated next on the list

after the expected capture of

Buna.