Evening star., 1942-10-14
Heavy Cruiser
Included; 3
Vessels Hit
NIMITZ SAYS hold on Solomons
to expand. Page AZ
CAPTAIN OF QUINCY killed in
height Of naval battle. Page AZ

CAPTAIN OF QUINCY killed in
height Of naval battle. Page AZ
The Navy's far-roving sub
marines have sunk five addi-
tional Japanese ships, including
a heavy cruiser, probably sunk
another ship and damaged two,
it was announced today in COM
munique No. Isl.
These figures. which the Navy
said have not been announced in
any previous communieue, are a re-
capitulation of recent under-sea ac-
tlvltieS, but come close on the heels
OF last nights communique bringing
other good news from a week end
attack in the Solomon area.
Today's announcement brings to
1913 the number of Japanese ships
sunk or damaged by submarines in
the Pacific and the South Pacific
since the war started. OF that fig
ure, 79 were sunk, 20 probably sunk
and "a damaged.
The score today: One heavy
cruiser sunk. / medium sized car
60 ship sunk, l small cargo ship
sunk, small tanker sunk, l small
trawler sunk, l large tanker dam
aged, l medium sized cargo ship
damaged and probably sunk, and l
medium sized tanker damaged.
Beyond saying that today's re-
suits were achieved in Far Eastern
waters, the Navy made no definite
loca ton of the sinkings.
Japs Given ebay Pummeling.
Growing prowess of American sea
and air power has given the jap
anese a six-day pummeling that
wrecked enemy ships. planes and
equipment throughout the whole
Pacific battle zone from the Aleu-
tians to the Solomons. -.
Communiques from the three &C
tive war fronts presented this pic
ture of United States and Allied
fighting successes:
Solomon Islands-A heavy cruiser
four destroyers and transport
sunk; another destroyer probably
sunk; three cruisers torpedoed and
bombed, one severely; eight bombers,
four fighter planes and three sea-
planes destroyed.
Aleutian 1slands-JapaneSe ships
camps and hangers at Kiska, the in
vader's lone remaining foothold,
blasted by aerial bombs and burned
by incendiaries. Resistance was
relatively weak.
New Guinea-Enemy ground forces
pushed back in the Owen Stanley
Mountains toward their Kokoda
base by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
Allied troops while heavy bombers
dropped 1,000-pound explosives on
the Japanese air base at Rabaul,
New Britain. Grounded aircraft
smashed by direct hits.
All Allied Bombers Return.
The American forces, the Navy
reported, lost destroyer and two
fighter planes in the Solomons. All
American and Allied bombers re-
turned from the Aleutian and New
Britain raids although some suffered
minor damage.
Japan's losses as disclosed by Navy
communicates yesterday and last
night, pushed her total Solomon
Islands toll to 260 destroyed planes
eight vessels sunk, three probably
sunk and 81 damaged. The an
nounced American total was 10 lost
ships.
The latest series of beatings ed
mlnlstered to the Japanese in the
Southeastern Pacific started October
y when Marine Corps aircraft dam
aged two cruisers and shot down
three seaplanes.
On the night of October 11-12
United States cruisers and DESTROY
ers surprised japanese vessels at
tempting to land reinforcements on
Guadalcanal Island and with tor
pedoes and gunfire sank a 10000
ton heavy cruiser, four destroyers
and 5,000-ton transport. The en-
emy sank destroyer unidentified az
yet by the Navy.
Failing in its landing mission
the Japanese fleet steamed awav but
(see PACIFIC, Page A-1e.)