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 $25; Alaska Native Sisterhood $42.1O; Miscellaneous Collections CBIrs. Persons), $50.15; Mrs. Tom Elswick Collections. S21.30; Mis- cellaneous Collections, $39.65; A, N. B. Members: W. J. Rudolph SIP; Charlie Jones, $1O; Frank Desmond, $2; James Bradley. $2; Wm. Tamaree, $1; Walter Austin. $1; Jim Martin, $1; JJoJhn Jos eph, $1.
 L. c. Bigelow, $1O; Chas. Early. $1O; Chas. Moore, s7O; Norman, Bakke, $1O; Wm. D. Byrd, $10; Otto Teller, $1O; J. Everson, $1O; J. B. Bigelow, $1O; Carl Messen- ger, S1O; B. A. Dubke, $10 liar old Anderson, $1O; Emerson Reid, $1O; MT. and Mrs. F. c. Hanford, $50; B. E. Kalkins, $1O; Harvey Cook, $10; M. W. Weyer, $10; Dave Remmerdan, 8 10; Ed Jahnke, $2; MT and Mrs. J. D. Smith, $1O; J. H. Larson, $10; Ed l.. Moore, $1O; Bert Gollus, SEQ; Harry Matos, $1O; Clyde Weidel, $5; Emo Jussila, $10; S. N. Har- vie, $1O; John Strom, $5; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Fries, $1O; Ray Ham mer, $5; MT. and Mrs. Chester steear, $10; George Collins, $5; MT. and Mrs. Charlie Burch, $5; Ole skanas, $5; J. E. Roaming, $15; Bill Vices, $10; Carl Brad ley, $1O; Mrs, Virginia Moore, $lO; Bill Waters, $5; Salvation Army, $25; Brigadier and Mrs. J. T. GilIingham, $10; Ralph Deven- ny. S1O; Fred Dahl, $5; Hans Nergaard, $1O; MT. and Mrs. c. J., Michaelson, $lO; Mrs. George Ed enso, $1O; MT. and Mrs Martin Nore, $50; Capt. c. Sievewright, S2; Mrs. Ralph Lindsley, $2; Mrs. M. A. Cramer, $10; MT. and Mrs. F. Angerman, $5; R. H. Koch, $2O; H Heinbuckel, $2; L. B.. Chisholm, $2O; MT. and Mrs. Steve Grant, $5; Dr. John Clements, S20; A. W. McDermott, $5; Eddie Churchill, $5; Mrs. Hannah Otte- son. $5; H. M. Olsen (Wrangell Lumber MiID, $25; Patsy Sotin- sky, $5; MT. and Mrs. Julius Ma son, $1O; MT. and Mrs. John We'll man, $25; MT. and Mrs. P. c. Me Cormack, $40; Grover Foster, $40; Joe Weaver, $20.
 Mrs. Tommila, $1; Mrs. Ruth R Rock. S5: Miss Dorisanne Barnes, $5; A. R. Brueger $6O; Einar Otteson, $1O; MT. and Mrs. Dick Moore, $5; R. l. Kneeland, $5; Melvin Gadd, $5; Hilda Broad, $1; H. Bjorge, $1O; Ignacio Nav arrete, $2; Leoncis Cesar, $2; Bas- lilo, G. Nieveras, $2; Franklin Born, $2; St. Philips Guild, $25; MT. and Mrs. J. C. Johnson, $5; J. L. Grover, $1O; Mrs. Ferguson, $2; Mrs. Kangas, $2; Harrington Transportation Co. $25; S. c. Bar rington, $10; A. W. H. Smith, $10; A. V. Ritchie, $2O; w. H.. Harrington, Jr, $1U; J. Nelson, $5; Lyle Woods, $5; W. H. Bar rington, $10; J. J. Coulter, $40; Vivian Sorenson, $10; Christine DarWell, $5; Mrs. Frank Barnes, $125.
 Wrangell Emblem Club, $25; American Bakery, S25; Cliff Bjorge, $5; Frank Desmond, $1O; Howard Churchill, $1O; Lena Me Kibben, $10; MT. and Mrs. Lars Eide, $15; Oscar Carlson, $5; John Olson, $50; Fred Lewis, $1; Carl w. stoeckel, s2; Vim. D. Grant, $5; MT. and Mrs. Charles
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sadler, S5. MT. and Mrs. Knut Ness, $10: MT. and Mrs. Leo Os- terman, $15; Mrs. H. D. Campbell. $5.
 Donations from Wraugell In- stitute: s1.0O each--May Harris. Evelyn Dude Patricia Bryant, Clarissa Ridley, Mary Haldane. Selma, Leite, Gabriel Ruff, David Sumner, Peter M. Casey, Irene An derson, Violet Evans, Virginia White, Jessie Atkinson, Verna Evans, Charles Natkong, L. Usher, Alfreda Peratrovitcn, Mary Pete, Ronald Milne
 $500 each-Thomas Williams, Eugene Samuelson, Mary Cooday, Nick Williams, Carolyn James, Jennie Kong, Emmy Hebert, Molly Taylor, Marianne Olsen, Julia Barnes, Frank Jones, Myrtle Wat rous, Mrs. Carmody, Mrs. Ben AL exander, Martha Stamp, Hubert Vinberg.
 $1O.OO each-Mr. and Mrs. Her man Johnson, Marjorie Fadaoff, Byrdie McNeill, Mir. and Mrs. L. R. Ripley, MT. and Mrs. Norman Whitaker.
 MT. and Mrs. George Barrett, $7.50; Edward Barnes, $2; Myr- tie Ivanoff, $40; Larry Christ mas, $1.5O; Alice Leask, s2; Max inc Jones, $2; EIdon Ridley, $3; Jack Sumdum 50: Peter Alexan- der, 50; John Malutin, 50; Mary Bosky, 50; Anna June Wilson, $2; Emil Vinberg, .5O.
 Donations by Alaska Native Sis terhood: From treasury, $20; Mrs. Person, $I25; Mrs. Tamaree, $1- 10; Susie S. $1; Mrs. Jessie Bar low. S1; Alice Stokes, $2; Mrs. Mary Lanado, $1; Mrs. Joe Her nandez, $1; Alice Joseph, S1; Sad ie Campus, $1; Eva Blake, S1; Mrs Charlie Jones, $1; Mary Lam ting, $1; Jennie Hammock. $l. Louise Joseph, $1.25; Mabel Will lard, $1.50; Mrs. James Bradley, $1; Mrs. Harvie, $3; Mrs. Don Miller, $1.
 Miscellaneous donations: $1.OO Gotardo, Fortunate Got ardo, Mrs. Louis Wigg, Betty Blake, Caroline Wfgg, Nellie Ma ther, Tina Petekoff, Mrs Mary Re- quina, Edna Choquette, Olaf Per son, Bernard Lanting, Mrs. Fekla Sipary, Mrs. Irene Johnson, Mrs. Lillian Kelly, Adeline Johnson, Mrs. T. Louie, MT. Thomas Louie, Santos Lanado, Ray Sulla, Fran cis Bernado, Teopisto Moro, Mrs. Jessie Eyon, Edna Haaseth, Mrs. Gross, MT B. WaIberg, Virgil liar to, Mrs. Alma Vinarma, Victor Villarma, Marcus Daily, Mrs. Emma Case
 $2.O0 each Mrs. Mary Loftus, Fred Wigg, Mrs. Peter Johnson, F G. Hanford.
 Leveda Ukas, 50; Evelyn Ma ther, 50; MT. and Mrs. Winston Davies, $3; Mrs. Mike Lynch, $2.- 15; Jim Howard, 50; Mrs. Elsie Ford, .5O Mrs. Aileen Lewis, $5.
 Pacific AmericanF Fisheri s, $100; St. Philips Episcopal church $50; Rev. William Forbes, $10; Mrs. E. S. Petticrew, $2; Mrs. L. Binkley, $2; MT. and Mrs Olaf Hanson, SEQ; MT. and Mrs. Sund- berg, $10; Mrs.E. J. Case, $2; Mrs. c. J Deveney, $1O; MT. and Mrs. George Fabricius, $1O; St. Mary's Guild, $20; MT. and Mrs G. Close, $1O; Ladies Aid Society, $2O.
 Grand Total $4,23405
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PREACHING MISSION

The Presbyterian Preaching Mission is expected to arrive in Wrangell October 22, headed by Dr. A. B. Keeler, Secretary of the board of National Missions. While here they will hold services at the local Presbyterian church.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-10-15
CATHOLIC CHURCH

There will be no services at the local Catholic church Sunday as Father Hoch is in Petersburg.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-10-15

Church services for Sunday are at the usual hour.
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be replaced with skilled air sold iers. Secondly, Army insists that every man must have adequate basic training before going into action, at least one year, which means the man supply must be adequate in order to develop the men properly for the job they are best fitted.
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 Through town this week were Regional Forester B. Frank Heint- zleman and A. E. Glover of the Forest Service en route to Juneau headquarters after a visit to log ging camps on the west coast. Eight camps are now operating with about 400 men employed and many more needed Heintzleman reported. Log rafts are going south at the rate of about one every couple of weeks made up of from 600,000 to 900,0O0 feet of lumber. In addition to man power short age, biggest problem is getting Iu69 to AauA tue loB IdLIs sOuIu. Ones available are those released by the Army or Navy for a trip and then hauled back into ser vice. Supply is uncertain and very limited. Logs are sawed in Puget Sound mills, contrary to the for mer policy which held Alaska lum- Der must be processed in Alaska, and a great deal of the lumber is going to England where much of it is used in construction of planes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-12
Slight Enemy Resistance
Met By Canadian Forces

captured. They have been coming
back from the front since dawn
in catches of so or 100 guarded by
one or two Canadians.
So far, Canadian casualties ap-
pear to be very light. On one
beach where two assault units
landed there were only half doz-
en- men wounded.
l landed at SIS A. M. this morn
ing from a naval launch which
guided the assault infantry to the
beach. There has been scarcely
a shot fire das the troops infiltrat-
ed into the countryside.
Two companies had got in short
ly ahead of us on our beach and
they and some sappers seemed
to have sharp engagement but
broke through the weak beach de-
fenses in about IS minutes.
From about midnight, airforces
plastered the Pachino peninsula
and a terrific series of bomb ex-
plosions and the lights of burning
Pachino fired by the RAF helped
to guide us in.
The big warships of the fleet
stood offshore a few miles and
added to the din with tremendous
salvos that shattered the night
1t was the most fantastic spec
tacle to see and hear. Two assault
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INVASION NAVY
OPERATED WELL
All Units Work In Close
Coordination In Early
Landing Stages

ALLIED FORCE COMMAND
POST, July II. - (P) - 1T was
like a Spithead review" was the
way naval officer described the
scene off the Sicilian coast yes
terday as Allied troops began their
landing operations.
Long lines of ships of all types
and all sizes were lying off the
beaches, the only thing missing
being the bunting. Landing craft
were fussing back and forth be-
tween beaches and ships which
were crowded with troops, and
naval beaches parties were super
vlsing the unloading of equipment,
guns and tanks which went on
steadily throughout the day with
cut interruption.
After enemy coastal batteries
had been silenced and out troops
had broken through the beach de-
fenses there was very little sign
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with 500-pound bombs Saturday
near the mouth of Kula gulf. The
last report on this force, head
quarters spokesman said, was OF
reconnaissance plane which sight
ed it sailing northwestward Satur-
day under cover of storm front.
1t was then IS miles north OF
Kolombangara island.
In addition to the raids on the
two large enemy airbases in the
Solomons, the Allied attack ex-
tended also all the way from Ra-
baul, New Britain, to Koepang
on Dutch Timor.
Thirty-five tons of bombs were
dropped on the runway and dis
persal areas of Vunakanau air
drome at Rabaul, starting five
large fires and many smaller ones
which were followed by a number
of heavy explosions. One OF the
large blazes was believed to nave
been a fuel dump.
In direct support Of ground for
ces in the Salamaua area OF New
Guinea, medium bombers attacked
enemy positions on Bobdubi ridge
and at Kela and Mission points,
dropping 40 tons of bombs. Fight.
ers escorting the bombers shot
down five Zeros and probably de-
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RESISTANCE LIGHT
No Major Enemy Opposi-
tion Yet Encountered By
Allied Forces
JUNCTION IS FORMED
Air-Borne Troops Estab-
lish Contact With Ground
Units On Isle

ALLIE D HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
July 11.-P)-Three airfields
have fallen to the Allied in
vasion forces, including the
American parachutists and
British glider troops, which
tonight still were striking in
land without major resistance
after solidly establishing a
100-mile bridgehead in south
eastern Sicily.
The latest official reports
in the opening battle for Eu-
rope gave this picture of the
campaign tonight:
Smudge faced American
parachutists who dropped on
the big island Friday night
had made contact with Amer
ican infantrymen who landed
later in assault barges - cap
turing two airfields in the &C.
la area, about 55 miles west
of the southeastern tip of ST.
cily. The booted, toughly-
trained parachutists had suf-
fered negligible losses" IN
gaining these detectives on
their first large scale assault.
Meet Nazi Tank Column
The Americans had collided with
an enemy tank column when they
landed near Celia, but easily mas
tered it with the aid of a barrage
of shells hurled ashore from
guardian warships.
British and Canadian troops to
the southeast joined ranks across
the narrow Cape Passero, captur-
ing third airfield a Pachino on
the capes tip after hard fighting.
Casualties were believed to
have been slight in all these op-
erations, a communique said.
With piles of guns, vehicles, and
supplies pouring ashore BEHIND
them, the Allies were tanning out
and striking inland. The big ships
of the American and British ma
vies continued to shunt more and
more equipment ashore, while a
dominating air force guarded the
skies and raked Axis concentra-
ton points all over the island.
Can Algiers radio broadcast re-
corded in London said the Allies
already had set up regimental and
divisional headquarters in Sicily.
(Axis reports replayed through
Stockholm also said that Allied
troops had landed at seven points,
including Licata, Is miles west of
Celia, and at Canicatti, Is miles
north and inland from Licata. The
latter city probably was a para
chutist objective.)
More Canadian reinforcements
have reached North Africa from
Britain, presumably to swell the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-12
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

A learned friend tells me tnat
propaganda is that branch OF the
art of lying which nearly deceives
your friends without deceiving
your friends without deceivlng
YOUR enemies" For long time
now, but in recent days ever more
blatantly and recklessly, the Amer
lean public has been subjected to
an officially inspired campaign OF
propaganda on the subject OF
France. It has nearly deceived
large number of well intentloned
people. But not for long. There
is a free press in this country and
in Great Britain. What is more,
the policy which the propaganda
supports is wholly unworkable.
The mechanics of the propagan-
da are these: Access to the data
about our French policy is under
strict control, on the ground of
military secrecy, in Algiers and in
ashington. Then news and opln-
ion is fed out in several different
ways. 1t is fed out through re-
porters who in the ordinary rou-
tine of the newspaper profession
publish the selected news and
opinion, ascribing it to "high Off
Gals" "unimpeachable authori-
ties,'' etc., etc. Exciting tid-bits
are also fed out to the professional
rumor-mongers. Finally, a jour-
nalist of standing is selected, given
special access to information; in
return for this special privilege,
information which has to come out
because it can no longer be con.
cealed, is presented to the public
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BY ROSS MUNRO
Canadian Press War
CORRESPONDENT
distributed By The Associated
PreSS)

distributed BY The Associated
Press
WITH CANADIAN TROOPS IN
SICILY, July 10 Delayed)-Be-
hind an enormous naval and air
night bombardment the Canadl-
ans practically walked into Sicily
today, meeting very little deter
mined resistance on their beach
es four miles southwest Of Pach-
ino on the southeast tip of the IS
land.
(Munro's story was the first eye
witness account received from
any correspondents attached to
the invasion forces.)
The Canadians smashed through
beach defenses as soon as they
were set ashore and the infantry
attacked inland, establishing an
extensive divisional bridgehead
which was the Canadians initial
task in the Eight Army invasion
plan.
Some stubborn resistance has
been put up by the Italians north
and west of Pachino, and along
other sectors of the front there
were heated engagements.
Big battles probably will come
before long, but meanwhile, large
numbers of prisoners are being
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COAL men
VOTE FOR WORK
Group Ballots For Return
To Pits After Insurgents
Picket Shafts

PITTSBURGH, July 11.-CR--
Some 5000 of the more than $4,000
southwestern Pennsylvania soft
coal miners WHO were kept from
their pobs last week by a wave of
insurgent picketing voted today to
return to the pit tomorrow.
John P. Busarello, president OF
United Mines Workers District S.
said the action of eight locals in
dicated most of the men In his dis
trict would be back at work unless
pickets blocked their way.
He said the miners had reiterat-
ed their desire to 60 to work in
spite Of what he termed an "out-
law movement that closed 26
mines - 18 of them steel compa.
ny-owned Captive pits.
"They all would have worked
last week if the pickets hadn't pull
ed them out" Buarello aid.
Meanwhile, the daily production
loss of more than 100000 tons was
causing further curtailment of
steelmaking operations in war-vi-
tai Pittsburgh district mills.
First immediate effect Of the
latest stoppages was the announce
ment by the U. S. Steel corpora
ton - the nations largest pro-
ducer - that IL of it's blast fur
naces in the Pittsburgh district
would be out of operation by Mon
day due to a lack of coking coal.
The company also announced
slashing of operations at its huge
Clarion by-products works near
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THRE|k S|C|uAN A|RF|E[DS CAPTURED;
K3ADERS SMASH TOWARD INTERIOR
Stimson In England;
Trip May Be Prelude
To New Allied Drive

LONDON, July II. - P -
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson arrived today from
Washington less than 4S hours
after the invasion of Sicily
began, and the assumption
here was that his flying visit
was connected with coming
moves against the Axis in
Europe.
He will confer with top mill
tary and civilian authorities in
Britain, particularly with the
American commander in the
European theater Of opera
tions, Lieut.. Gen. Jacob L.
Devers. The general and other
ranking officers met the Sec
retary at an undisclosed air.
port.
William L. Hartman, expe-
diter of lease-lend to Britain,
was among those greeting
Stimson.
1t was the secretary's first
visit to theater Of opera.
tions since the United States
entered the wa.
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Walter Lippmann Says:
Propaganda For France
U1u0rkQbLe In America

in a form most agreeable to those
in authority.
The net result of the whole pro-
cedure is the manipulation of
public opinion by preventing an
independent examination of the
facts. This method of manipula-
tion is wholly Objectionable, and
far more serious impairment of the
freedom of the press than are the
amateurish pamphlets of the
o. w. l., about which Congress has
raised such a row. For it is one
thing, not much good and yet not
terribly bad, for a government to
issue propaganda with its own Off
cial imprint candidly upon it.
But the practice of opening the
official files as a special privilege
to hand-picked journalists is very
bad 1t corrodes the independence
of the press. Those who enjoy the
privilege must pay for it. Those
who hope to enjoy it find it ex-
pedient to make themselves agree
able to the keepers of the secret
files.
The whole subject is one, not for
Congress, but for the newspaper
profession itself, and it might well
be examined by the American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors. 1t has
come to head in recent days by
the publication in the Saturday
Evening Post of a series of arti-
cles by Demaree Bess. In these
articles Mr.. Bess states that he
went to North Africa and was
given access by General Eisen-
hover to the official files. But it
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British Merchantmen
Sinking Brings Total
Of Losses Up To 67I
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press) -
The sinking of the British
merchant ship Vernon CITY last
June 2S brought to GIL the As
ISOLATED Press total of ANNOUNCE
ed losses of Allied and neutral
merchantmen in the Western
Atlantic since Pearl Harbor
The destruction of the Vernon
City in the South Atlantic was
disclosed last week when the
entire crew of So arrived in
three life boats at a Brazilian
port.
The Navy, which announced
no losses during the past seven
days, has reported only one
other Allied merchant sinking
in June. A joint British-Ameri-
can statement declared that los
ses to submarine attacks last
month were the lowest since
the United States entered the
war.
This presented a complete
turnab bout from the situation
that prevailed in June, 1912,
when Ill Allied and neutral
cargo carriers were reported
sunk in Western Atlantic wa
ters alone.
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slid gently through heaVy mist
to Sicilian soil at 1910 p. M. Fri
day.
The invasion was underway.
At 11:2O p. m. paratroops drop
ped on their obiectives.
Before and after this curtain
raising action on the second Euro
pean front many hundreds OF Al
lied planes put new explosive
meaning in the German term -
blitz.
The Americans sent over new
A-36s which had been carefully
held back during the African cam
paign. When they drop their bombs
they are diving at much greater
speed than the German Stuka and
when they level out a formidable
array of machineguns is blasting
at the enemy on the ground. AS
fast. maneuverable and heavily
armed as a first line fighter, A-36s
make a Stuka look like a one
horse shay.
AS an amphibious operation the
Sicilian invasion was far beyond
anything the Germans dreamed OF
doing. Their Norwegian Trojan
Horse conquest for example was
run on shoe string compared
with the huge force carried over
water by the Allied fleet and land
ed securely with officially slight
losses.
When the Allied troops got a
shore they carried equipment for
coping with all eventualities.
They swept clean 100 miles OF
Sicilian coast within "a hours and
this original attack of seemingly
great dispersion turned out to be
concentrated blow.
Getting control of airfields for
the support of fighting troops is
among the most important Of the
basic principles of modern war.
At least three were in American
and British hands inside OF one
day in southeastern Sicily.
The attack on Sicily may have
been tactical surprise but it was
not strategical surprise, observ'
ers agreed. The strategy OF an ul-
innate victory in the European
war dictated an invasion of this
water-ringed continuation of the
Italian peninsula and the Axis re-
allied this much as the Allies
photographed" their intention by
round-the-clock air assaults and
by massing an invasion armada.
The Axis could see the invasion
coming with terrific force. 1t was
as inevitable as doomsday.
Hitlers formula has become a
boomerang.
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Allies Strike New Blows
At Japs In Pacific Area

rl5r ln-LlED LED HEADQUARTERS IN
5s,. jnh SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Mon.
,,, s' July l2.-tR-Allied bombers
S.;ol. ioA ne" heavy blows at Japan's
ctio ill., bases IN the Southwest Pa
b,,,hIo o sunday, hurting 50 tons of
S.5i5:S S.,0S on Mumda and 40 tons on
Ar ',il alrdrome, a major enemy
Island. ''Se On 6ougalnviple
,o'.y Avengers and Dauntless bonobers
ions ',uea "a enemy anti-aircraft posi-
bin t'Ii'$ :, and bivouac areas on Bibelo
bombn. H. me Munda area with heavy
snt '9S oS Results of the attack were
y Thu 590served, however.
base see H. RAD n on this key Japanese
ed N N M me central solomons rais-
dronnad5' no !, IONS the weight of bombs
!, it''Spsd t5s there in two days. Muhda yGlfris
powerf,,7p S Primary objective of the
General ne" new offensive launched by
tan t,.. douglas Macarthur less
otbo ewo weeks ago.
by warIa; Planes searching for enc
FciDitv sup 81. }. last reported in the
nal too VI New Georgia, found a
trover..O .O[ce :, of cruisers and de-
tirection headed northwest in the
Solumonn. Oh Faisi in the northern
'sct by was vas no report of any con-
Jspsroouf ouf surface vessels with
ts bornSse bbse naval force on which
40efs scored two direct hits