The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-21
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 air bases in the islands to the northwest. The plan apparently is to keep the Japanese so occupied defending their own bases that they can not undertake any sustained air attack on American positions in the Solomons.
 Several bombing raids were made on the Island of Gizo and on Rek- ata Bay, respectively 2l5 miles and 1o0 miles northwest of Guadalcanal, major American base in the Solo- mons.
 Latest air foray was against Buka northwesternmost of the Solomor1s, where the Japanese have an airfield. That island is the nearest of the Solomons to Rabaul, most iImpor- tant Japanese base in the southwest Pacific.
 The Navy's last war bulletin, is- sued Saturday night, reported a Hull in the fighting on Guadalcanal, where the Japanese had made an abortive attempt to re-take the air- field. More significant was the Navy's announcement that supplies and re- Inducements have reached the Ma rines. That indicates that the Jap- anese had failed to impair Ameri- can communication to the island. It was also interpreted as implying that another large-seale enemy at- tack was anticipated and that the defenSeS were being strengthened to meet 1t.
 Australians Whip Japs
 Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia, Sept. 21-(UP)-Austral- ian troops under Maj. Gen. Cyril Cloves have cleaned out the entire Milne Bay area at the southeastern tip of New Guinea and thus have consolidated the biggest Japanese defeat of the war in the Australian zone, 8 spokesman for Gen. Doug las MacArthur announced today.
 It was indicated that the rem- nants of the Japanese invasion force trapped in that area had fought tenaciously to the last, first in small groups, then in pairs or alone, until all had been wiped out.
 Toward the last, the Australians hopping up the wild jungle coun- try into which the enemy troops fled, encountered only pairs of men and individuals, the survivors of a big invasion force which landed on the stormy night of Aug. 25 on the bay shore only 450 miles from con- tinental Australia.
 News of final, complete victory at Milne Bay reused hope that Mac Arthur would outsmart the Japanese adavncing on Port Moresby from the southern ridges of the Owen Stanley mountains 32 air line miles away.
 Just three weeks ago, all Australia was intensely anxious over the Milne Bay situation and saw an urgent threat not only to Port Moresby, the big Allied advanced base on New Guinea, but to Australia itself.
 The Japanese succeeded in 1and- ing big force at Milne Bay. On the night of Aug. 29 a Japanese cruiser and eight deStroyers reached the area under cover of bad wealth CT which protected them from Allied planes, and MacArthur reported that the warships might have land- ed endorsements.
 Scare headlines had just startled Australians when MacArthur re- ported in special communique that the enemy troops actually had fallen into a trap, prepared long in ad- vance in anticipation of an attack on Port MoreSby from Milne Bay.
 Actually, it developed, the enemy cruiser and destroyers which reached the bay were making a desperate, and vain, attempt to rescue some of the trapped invasion force.