The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-09
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ed to reveal any enemy activity
on these islands.
Atlantic:
-. The u. S. Coast Guard
Cutter Muskeget, formerly the
s. S. Cornish, of the Eastern
Steamship Lines, has been over
due in the Atlantic for some time
and must be presumed to be lost,
KIN NOTIFIED
IS. The next of kin of the per-
sonnet of the Muskeget have been
notified"
The attack on the Japanese
base at Kiska was the latest of
more than q dozen aerial raids
which have been carried ~out
against that enemy center since
the first of September. 1t raised
to a total of 80 ships sunk or
damaged the number of vessels
which the Japanese have had
blasted since they first moved in
to the Aleutians in early June.
The reference on Attu and
Agattu, following up the Nays
announcement of Wednesday
that no enemy activity had been
detected on those islands for
several weeks, showed that
American forces in the area were
keeping close surveillance to be
sure that if the enemy did come
back, he would be greeted by a
prompt outburst of bombing.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 Up
-Persistently betting Japanese
invaders throughout the vas
Pacific war zone, the Allied Of
fensive left surprised m y
forces in the Solomon Islands to-
day with eight less aircraft and
five damaged ships including a
heavy cruiser.
The latest of the recently mi
tiated attacks which already
have forced the Japanese back
virtually to their starting point
in New Guinea and apparently
driven them out of two of the
three western Aleutian Islands
they once occupied, struck al
the heart of the Nipponese in
vasion base in the north Solo
mons.
Catching the japanese un.
awares in bad we h r., ar
American aircraft carrier force
shattered the enemy's ships and
planes in the Shorthand Island
area. on Monday, the Navy dis
closed last night.
RAKE ISLANDS
simultaneously. long range
bombers under General Doug
las MacArthur's Australian com
mand foresta alice an aerial
counter-attack by splashing the
enemy's airbases in nearby is
lands with bombs.
Without loss of a man or z
plane, the Nays aircraft dam.
aged a heavy cruiser and 9
transport with heavy bombs anc
two cargo ships and a seaplant
tender with lighter bombs. Two
enemy seaplanes and two bomb
ers were shot down and four 4
engined flying boats were de-
stroyed in the harbor. In add
ton, low-flying craft poured
bullets into another cruiser ano
destroyer.
The new thrust in the Alice
offensive program was result
of observations by long-rangt
reconnaissance aircraft in recen'
weeks, the Navy said.
SIGHT CONCENTRATIONS
Concentrations of large num-
bers of enemy ships were sight
ed in the Shorthand Island area
and it was considered / k e y
they had helped supply and re-
inforce the Japanese detach
ments on American controlled
Guadalcanal Island $50 mile:
distant.
Meanwhile, on the basis of the
Nays last report on the Quad
aicanai operations, naval anc
military circles still expected
the Japanese would at m p
again to recapture the airbast
taken by the Marines more thar
two months ago.
In New Guinea, Australian
ground forces worked their way
without opposition to the Over
Stanley Mountain passage, door
way from Japanese bases on thu
north shore of the island to the
Allied base of Port Moresby tC
the south.
PROTECT PASS
Australian protection of tn
pass freed Allied air forces K
attack an enemy ship at Koe
pang in Dutch Timor opposite
northwestern Australia and
Japanese transport at Saumlaki
Japanese held areas at kokod'
and Buna in New Guinea als'
were strafed and bombed.
Growing cooperation of tn
Allied forces in the battle OF tn
Pacific was indicated further b!
announcement of Navy Ministe
Angus Macdonald in Ottaw'
last night that five Canadian
warships had aided the Unitet
States forces in occupying thu
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