Show I ALLIED FORCES FORGES SCORE IN ORIENT By Associated Press Allied fighters scored heavily on far eastern battle fronts today American volunteer fliers and andR andR R RAF A F pilots struck one ono of their hardest blows at the Japanese air strength on the Burma front destroying destroying de tle- 30 enemy planes and carrying carrying carrying car car- out effective sweeps over ground positions along the river front credited officially with sinking three transports in the crucial battle for the Dutch East Indies Meanwhile a Tokyo spokesman acknowledged that 26 Japanese transports had been sunk or damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged in the far Pacific Faces ls Major ChalIe Challenge Challenger ge f r As s s' the d ly on ono U p be I. I coming firtL time in in the ll- ll w o li Japan was f n a ria ii F l lenge n th es A Royal Au Air l for Ford t s afi ai d Australian bombers plashing flashing at at bases to milea north orth of or ot Australia attacked ed both New Britain island an and Tim island and set big fires Meanwhile l op opening t ng a parlia parliamentary debate on the war wag situation situe- situe tion lion H H. H V Vr Evatt Australian j t t torney g general and minister f external affairs told the house hous pf f representatives t ha hat t d 4 i fe ie ct thrusts against our Homeland d certain Japs Raid Vital Port While Japanese bombers struck again at vital Port Moresby on the southern shore of New Guinea Guinea less than miles from Cape York bombed yesterday a large force of Australian bombers again attacked Buildings aircraft aircraft aircraft air air- craft searchlights and a antiaircraft antiaircraft craft guns were 11 blasted sted One Australian plane was reported re reported reported re- re ported lost British sources said the aerial blows had slowed the Japanese ground attack in Burma but in adjoining India an official announcement announcement an an- said certain areas of the district the In- In Continued on raJ Page Pace Five Column Four I 11 ALLIED AIRMEN I ISCORE SCORE Continued from Page One i dian port district which is n nearest arest i i ifor Ii Burma will be evacuated shortly for the public benefit 1 Ii It added that there was no Ii reason for panic and that the Ij move was purely precautionary The district is on j the shores of the Bay of Bengal J near the Burma frontier J JA A United States military mission mis mis- mission j sion at Rangoon supervised the hurried loading of hundreds of trucks with piled stores of lend- lend lease war supplies and ard rushed them off toward the Chinese frontier frontier fron fron- I Itier tier while the Burma road re remained remained re- re open to traffic i It was understood that stores which could not be moved in time would be destroyed destroy d. d In this category category category cate cate- gory it was believed were many new U. U S S. built built trucks which had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet been assembled i Chinese Are Hard j Defending the Burma frontier in inthe j the Shan state area are thousands i of seasoned Chinese troops who I marched a thousand miles over rough mountain roads and trails to j the Thailand and In China Indo China o-China fronti fron fron- j ti tiers L So far they have had only patrol activity and a few clashes with the Japanese and their Thailand supporters In the Philippines General Douglas Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las MacArthurs MacArthur's headquarters reported reported reported re re- j i ported that American and Filipino troops were uniformly successful i in aggressive local actions all 1 along the lin line against Japanese I invasion forces on Bataan pen penin penin- in- in sula j Delayed dispatches said the 1 grim struggle appeared to have entered a definite stalemate with I the Japanese temporarily abandoning abandoning abandoning aban aban- their costly attempts to crack General MacArthurs MacArthur's line I across the peninsula In London an official spokesman spokes spokes- 1 man hinted that evacuation of British subjects from the embattled embattled embattled Indies to Australia may al already already already al- al ready have haye started particularly women and children who are not required locally for the war effort ef ef- fort I Attack Airdrome A bulletin from N E EI I headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters said united nations planes sank two Japanese transports near southern Celebes island and a third elsewhere and further attacked an airdrome airdrome- near Japa Japa- occupied nese-occupied in lower Japa-I Japa Sumatra i Australia herself on on guard against invasion announced that thata a strong Japanese war fleet had been sighted off Dili the capital of Portuguese Timor miles northwest of Australia I |