Evening star., 1942-11-02
Other Vessels
Hit, Including
Plane Carrier
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The sinking of seven enemy
ships and the damaging of three
others, including a converted
aircraft carrier set af1re, by
American submarines during re-
cent operations in the Pacific
were announced today by the
Navy.
The announcement of these new
sinkings came less than day after
it was reported officially that the
Japanese had suffered damage to
seven big warships in the Stewart
Islands naval air battle October rs
and also had suffered the probable
loss by sinking or damage to seven
other vessels yesterday at the hands
of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bomb
ing force.
This mornings communique re-
ported that American submarines
operating in the Western and South
Pacific had sunk one large pas
senger-cargo ship, two large tank
ers, two medium sized and two small
cargo ships, damaged and set afire
one converted carrier and damaged
one destroyer and medium sized
tanker.
Jap Toll Raised to 1873.
These operations brought the total
of enemy ships reported sunk or
damaged by submarines in the Pa
cific since the outbreak of war to
1873, of which 86 were sunk, 20
probably sunk and 27 damaged.
The last previous Navy report on
submarine action against the Jap
anese in the Pacific, communique
No. ISL on october IA, reported the
sinking of five Japanese ships, in
cluding a heavy cruiser, plus one
probably sunk and two damaged.
AS a result of the latest encourag-
Ing activity it appeared that United
States naval forces had the run OF
the waters around embattled
Guadalcanal Island.
First Detailed Report.
In what the Navy described as
the first detailed report of the naval
air battle east of the Stewart Is
lands one week ago, the enemy also
was reported to have lost between
100 and $50 planes.
japanese warships listed by the
Navy as damaged in this engage
ment included two aircraft carriers,
two battleships and three cruisers.
This added one battleship and two
heavy cruisers to the score pre-
viously reported.
Announced United States losses
In the engagement were one car
rier, as yet unidentified and the
destroyer Porter, with other ships
reporting lesser damage.
Two Hour Cannonading.
AS the battered japanese armada
retired from the scene, American
warships swept into the area from
which enemy vessels had bombarded
the defenders of Guadalcanal and
let 60 with a tWo-hour cannonadlng
of japanese positions on the island.
Several buildings and boats and
some artillery were destroyed by
the shelling, which occurred last
Friday.
At the same time seven Grumman
Wildcats paid another call on the
enemy base at Rekata Bay, north
west of Guadalcanal, shooting down
three Zero float planes and two bl-
planes and sending fuel dump up
in smoke.
Dive bombers attacked enemy de-
stroyers in the vicinity OF the Russell
Islands, about 80 miles northwest
of Guadalcanal, Thursday night and
again Friday morning with incon-
elusive results. One bomber failed
to return.
Severe Jap Pounding.
AS the picture of the great Octo-
ber 26 battle began to take shape, it
appeared that Navy flyers had dealt
the enemy a severe pounding.
(The German Paris
radio broadcast roundabout
and wholly unsubstantiated re-
port yesterday that the Japanese
had captured "the largest air.
drome on Guadalcanal Island"
which, if true, would be Hender-
son Field.
(No such claims were heard
from the Toxic or any other
Axis radios, although the broad
caster credited a Toxic dispatch.
The Paris station has been the
source of frequent, unreliable ac-
counts of war operations in vari-
Gus parts of the world)
A detailed report reached Admiral
Ernest j. King, commander in chief
of the fleet and chief of naval oper-
ations, only yesterday from Vice Ad-