Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1942 — Page 15

MAY 8, 1942

Today’

United Press War Analyst

A vital phase in the battle of the Pacific very possibly is in progress or has been concluded in the Coral sea northeast of Australia. Its outcome may affect the immediate future of

Australia and the

in the southwest Pacific. If the invasion fleet which the Japanese have assembled in the vicinity of the

Solomon eleils has been crippled,

s War Moves

LOUIS F. KEEMLE

whole of united nations operations

the threat to our supply line has

been removed for the time being and the invasion of Australia made

“more remote. On the other hand, heavily as the axis claims, our naval

if the united nations have lost as

defenses may have been so badly|said he did not know how the bat-

weakened that the enemy may be able to force his way through to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, putting him in a position to isolate Australia. | There was a grave note in PreMier John Curtin’s message to the people of Australix, in which he

tle would end and warned of the “hourly menace” of invasion, Jap Claims Conflict It is impossible to evaluate the effect of the battle, which appears to have been the greatest naval-air

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engagement of the war, until full reports are in. . On the basis of announcements from Gen. MacArthur's headquarters and from Washington, the Japanese appear to have suffered a terrific blow. Of the 17 Japanese ships claimed to have been sunk or damaged, two were aircraft carriers, four cruisers and two destroyers. Such losses might well cripple whatever invasion fleet Japan has seen fit to send to the Solomons. Unless the Japanese have withdrawn from the Bay of Bengal, the larger part of its fleet must be in those waters, in the China sea and on guard around the home islands. However, according to the MacArthur communique, “our own losses have not been reported.” The only estimates come from axis sources and they are rather contradictory.

Effemy Travels Hard Road

The enemy apparently claims two aircraft carriers, two battieships and a cruiser. If ‘this were true, it would be reason for grave anxiety, but past axis claims have been exaggerated too often to warrant credence. The full story of the battle should provide interesting data on the power of air and naval forces, striking together in co-ordination. There seems no doubt that the planes engaged were mainly from carriers. They may, however, have been aided by heavy bombers, basNl on' northeastern Australia, 1000 miles away. Whatever the outcome of the battle, American and Australian air power is going to make the continent, hard to invade.

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LAGRANGE, Ind., May 8 (U. P.). —Richard B. Tasker, 37, Steuben county, today prepared to serve a two-to-21-year term at the Indiana state prison at Michigan City after pleading guilty in circuit court here to a charge of manslaughter. Tasker, who had spent the last 21

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