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...companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul have come in for a dose of heavy bombing, the Japs would launch any fresh offensive or organize any firm defenses in the Southwest Pacific Area...
Last week U.S. planes replied in kind, dive-bombed Jap installations in Gizo Island in the New Georgia group...
...Gizo Kasuya, a graduate of the University of Michigan, was elected to preside over the Lower House in the Japanese Diet, in succession to S. Oku, resigned. Kasuya is also a graduate of Keio University in Tokyo...