Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Flap Ships Sunk Buna Grip Broken
In Allied Sweep OverWide Front;
White Paper Bares GrewWarninq
U. S. Flyers BIost
installations of
Enemy at Kisko

BY the Associated Press.
New aerial blows against Jap
anese installations in the Aleu-
tians and in the Solomons were
reported by the Navy yesterday
along with the recent sinking by
American submarines of seven
merchant-type Japanese ships
and the damaging of one enemy
destroyer.
In addition to this news came the
announcement early today Aus
tralian time) from Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters that AL
lied soldiers had broken the back OF
Japanese resistance on the right of
the line at Buna The Allies now
are closing in on the only remaining
Japanese pocket at the Buna gov
eminent station from the south and
east.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
also announced that Allied airmen
pounded the japanese at Lac, New
Guinea, in series of heavy attacks
The blows dealt out by the Ameri-
can submarines raised to 1853 the
number of japanese ships of all
types sunk, probably sunk or dam
aged by American submarines. Of
these liz are listed as sunk % prob
ably sunk and 20 damaged.
Zero Fighter Shot Down.
The Army's Aleutian Islands air
force, grimly determined to elimi-
nate the newest japanese menace
at Kiska, returned in force to that
enemy base on New Year Day, shot
down one of six Zero fighters which
attempted to intercept and scored
at least a near hit on one small
ship in the harbor.
Clouds prevented complete OBJ
servation of results" the Navy said
in communicate. mo United
States planes were lost"
This action was paralleled by
heavy American air raids the first
day of 1943 in the Solomons area
of the South Pacific where bomb
ings were concentrated on break
ing up Japanese resistance on
Guadalcanal Island and preventing
use of the Munda air base on New
Georgia Island.
On Guadalcanal, Douglas Daunt-
less dive bombers dropped their
screaming cargoes of explosives in
the vicinity of Kokumbono, about
seven miles west of Guadalcanal
airfeld, where Japanese headquar-
tiers for the island is believed to be
located. The section is heavily over
grown with jungle and no observa-
ton could be made of exact results.
Munda Base Raided.
Meanwhile, the Solomons COM
mand threw formidable force of
planes against Japans Munda base
but results of the raid were not re-
ported" the communique said. The
attack was made by Marauder me-
dunn bombers escorted by Airacobra,
Lightning and WarhaWk fighters.
In Airacobra and Lightning types
previously had been in action in the
Solomons, but this was the first
official mention of the use of the
WarhaWk in that area.
"All United States planes returned
unchanged, the Navy said.
The raid against shipping at Kiska
Harbor was the third in three days.
The first turned ont badly when four
japanese Zeros, equipped with floats
for landing and taking off from
Kiska Harbor, shot down two Light
ming fighters and one medium
bomber and lost only one of their
own number.
The bonbers attacked enemy
ships in the harbor at that time
with uncertain results but a few
hours later. early December 80, they
returned and scored three hits on
SEQ PACIFIC. PAGE A-E2.)