Current Events April 15, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY:

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today said the southwest Pacific will receive ample airplanes to replace all losses and build up air forces there in sufficient

strength to counter the enemy.

A warning that a great onslaught with all the savagery that the Japanese mind is capable," is impending against Australia was voiced today after a military spokesman said that a great enemy naval combat fleet was maintained constantly at Truk,

U. S. army bombers and fighters have carried out 10 slashing attacks on Kiska in the most intensive dawn-to-dusk aerial assault of the Aleutians campaign.

        The Wisconsin State Journal

                            MADISON, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943

We'll Boost Pacific Air Power

Stimson Promises

We'll Send Planes

to Repel Japanese

WASHINGTON— (U.P)— Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

today said the southwest Pacific will receive ample airplanes

to replace all losses and build up air forces there in sufficient

strength to counter the enemy.

Meanwhile, responsible naval sources said there was no

evidence here which could justify any conclusion that the Japanese

were poised for an assault on Australia.

"We will keep the needs of the southwest Pacific constantly

in mind and there will be a steady and increasing flow of

military supplies, particularly aircraft, to that theater," Stimson

told a press conference.

Regarding Tunisia, he said the Axis armies there still

number between 175,000 and 200,000 veteran soldiers and

there is no evidence that they are planning a major evacuation.

Australia in Peril,

Air Leader Says

Japs Lose 30 Planes

in New Guinea Attack

GEN- MacArthurs Headquarters

Australia----(UP)---A warning that

a great onslaught with all the savagery that the Japanese mind is capable," is im-

pending against Australia was voiced today after a military spokesman said that a

great enemy naval combat fleet was maintained constantly at

Truk, only three days' sailing from New Guinea.

Australian Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford, addressing a war

loan rally at Melbourne, said that the peril to Australia again was as

great as in late 1941.

Australia in Danger

"I warn you that Australia is in danger—grim danger—in the

islands along our northern perimeter,"

Drakeford said. "There looms an impending

menace of a great onslaught with all the savagery of which the Japanese

mind .is capable. The dire peril in which Australia stood in

late 1941 is matched today by the coming Japanese blow of which

Prime Minister John Curtin and Gen. Douglas MacArthur have

warned and which is being prepared with all the Asiatic cunning

and thoroughness of which the enemy is capable."

                           Japs Keep Fleet Ready

Yankee Bombers

Slash at Kiska

10 Attacks in Day

Rake Enemy Base

WASHINGTON —(U.P)— U. S. army bombers and fighters have

carried out 10 slashing attacks on Kiska in the most intensive dawn

-to-dusk aerial assault of the Aleutians campaign.

The attacks, announced in a navy communique today, were

made on Tuesday.

Numerous hits were scored on the runway the Japanese are hewing

out of the rocky surface of the island for land plane operations.

Fires were started there and in the main camp area. Fighter'

planes raked beached enemy float planes with machine-gun fire.

These attacks raised to 39 the total number of raids made on

Kiska this month.

Meanwhile, the only aerial activity reported from the south Pacific

was a torpedo bomber and fighter attack on Japanese barges

and installations in Viru harbor, New Georgia island, in the central

Solomons. Several fires were started.