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...battle of Aug. 9 in the Solomon Islands had long been veiled in mystery. This much had been known: the Australian cruiser Canberra and four transports had been sunk. This week the Navy let some more news trickle and the trickle turned out to be a torrent. Three heavy U.S. cruisers were sunk: the Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria. The Jap, surprised at the Marines' landing Aug. 7, had turned around less than 48 hours later and pulled his own surprise. Casualties were "many," but "a majority" were saved. The Navy has not yet claimed sinking any Jap ships...
...head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...
Sherrod was in Melbourne when Douglas MacArthur got there from Bataan. He talked war plans in Canberra with Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin and most of the Cabinet. He was in battered Pont Moresby for its 73rd bombing-reported the American troops there positively reeked of good health on their diet of canned food and quinine, but there was not even a native woman within miles of the place. Early in May he stationed himself at a secret air base in northeast Australia from which Allied bombers were pounding the Japs to the north. He had his reward...
...correspondents' third battle was coverage. Australia is roughly the size of the U.S., and action is scattered around much of its frontier. Moreover, although Canberra is technically the capital, the Cabinet just as often meets in Melbourne or Sydney, and communiqués are issued all over...
...With crowds cheering, sailed into Canberra Harbor...