The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-17
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(Continued flying field, 55 miles from Port Moresby, and were holding the 5000 | foot pass in the Owen Stanley mountains against an expected Jap anese assault.
 Persistent allied attack on Dutch Portuguese Timor indicated that MacArthur suspected that the Jap anese were concentrating forces there for a possible diversional att tack on northern Australia which would change the entire strategic picture in the southwest Pacific.
 Fifth Big Raid MacArthurs medium bombing planes made their fifth big raid in seven days yesterday on the Timor area, attacking an enemy occupied town on the southeast coast and putting all their bombs in the tar get area. A big fire was started be- fore the allied planes returned, un- der heavy anti-aircraft fire, without loss.
 It was reported that allied troops including sturdy Dutchmen, Meth erlands Indies natives and Austra- Hans were still offering organized resistance to the Japanese in Timor But the persistent attacks of Mac Arthur's planes was understood to mean that important signs had been observed of increased neemy activ- ity, possibly in preparation for an attack on Darwin intended to offset the loss of prestige Japan had suf- fered in the Solomons attack.
 Of the Kokoda situation on New Guinea MacArthur's communique said
 Patrol skirmishes continue be- tween small enemy forces and our outguard elements beyond the bar rier line of the Owen Stanley range"
 The barrier line is the pass be- tween Kokoda, on the north side Of the mountains, and Port Moresby, on the south side. Previously Australian troops had retaken the Kokoda flying field, and were fight ing there.
 There had been no definite news from the Solomons for days. But dispatches indicated that in New Zealand, headquarters of the south Pacific fleet of Vice Adm. Robert Lee Ghormley who is directing the battle, and at Pearl Harbor, head quarters of Adm. Chester w. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet. confidence was held that when the right moment came the navy would be able to announce definite success.
 (The London News Chronicle, in dispatch dated from Ian advanced base" reported that losses which might fairly be described as terri fic" had been suffered by American parachute troops in proportion to the number of men engaged. The dispatch quoted "an authorized re- port from a south Pacific base" but there was nothing to substan- tiate it. There had been only un- official reports that parachutists were used at alb
 Japan Admits Landings
 London, Aug. 17.-(UP) - Japan admitted directly today that United states marines had effected land ings at an unspecified number Of points in the Solomon Islands.
 Japanese propagandists disagreed, however, on the significance Of the first American offensive in the southwest Pacific.
 While a government propaganda spokesman belittled it, the leading Tokyo newspaper Asahi said the Solomons attack was but the open ing of big United States offensive against Japan proper and said that fer weeks United States planes, pilots, mechanics and ground crews had been arriving at bases in China.
 Tomakazu Hori, official spokes- man, said the marines landed "only to give some useable news material to the United States naval spokes- man (Who has said almost nothing since the battle started) and the broadcasting stations"
 Regarding the small landings left in the Solomon islands," Hori said, "the American soldiers left in LiAC EJOAOlilOAlo may INV hAiOW oAAN fact that most of the Allied war vessels as well as the transports are now lying at the bottom of the sea and that the remnants, If any, have already fled away, forgetting their landing forces.
 "The Allied landing forces are absoluately isolated. Poor Ameri- car troops. hastily recruited and sent out thousands of miles from their homes and families, they are awaiting certain death, which will not be long in coming.
 They were not landed there for the purpose of fighting a signifi- cant battle but only"-and there Hori confided to his public that the landing was publicity stunt.
 However, Ashahi said, as quoted in Tokyo dispatch Of the Swedish telegraphic bureau:
 "The United States attack on the Eolomons is the beginning of an offensive plan against Japan, en- visaging attacks on Japan proper