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...Jap bombs hit New Guinea's Port Moresby, ahead of advancing jungle troops. (see p. 19) Toward the east, along the line the Japs might follow toward New Zealand or eastern Australia, more bombs struck Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Jap scouts hovered over Australia's northeastern tip and the islands of the Torres Strait. U.S. P-40s based at Darwin met attacking bombers and fighters, knocked several from the sky. Jap warships were reported here & there on the approaches to Australia, but either the reports were mistaken or the Japs were feinting, feeling for Allied naval weakness...
...Jap losses in these actions neither equaled the Allied losses in the Battle of Java (TIME, March 23) nor hurt the enemy as much as the disaster in the Java sea had hurt the United Nations. But the Japanese in these and previous Pacific combats had lost probably 15 to 20% of their cruisers. If their invasion clock had not been turned back, it had been thrown off Tokyo time...
...Japs to the West? Western Australia is a semi-desert land of vast sheep and cattle ranges, a few tiny seaports like Broome and Wyndham (where Jap planes have also attacked). For the present the Japs can probably win bridgeheads at such places if they want to take the trouble. Based there, they would still be 1,450 miles from the one worthwhile western objective, the southwestern port of Perth, and its surrounding farm, cattle and mineral lands...
Last week, from bombed and suddenly excited Port Moresby, came a strange tale about Finschhafen. According to the story, the Japs at Finschhafen had found guides to lead them through the jungles* toward airdrome sites in the Markham Valley. With missionaries or their native pupils for guides, tough Jap troops might even find a way 200 miles through the jungles and over the mountains to Port Moresby by land. According to the story, the Lutherans had abandoned their coastal missions and retired to the jungles. In one mission house Australian militia found Nazi arm bands and pennants...
...chaotic Burma last week the Jap was in a hurry, but not in too great a hurry. It was two months before the monsoons. The weather was fine now, for the Jap. It was so hot that a soldier could not lay his hand on a tank in the sun. Crashing through tindery bamboo thickets and dry rice paddies, the tanks raised clouds of dust, scaring the paddy birds and parrots. Burma's valleys run north, the direction of the Jap's main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could...