Show ALLIES CHART CHARTS NIP KAYO DRIVE By Dy BR BRYDON DON C. C TA TAVES ES MAC ARTHUR ARTHUR HEADQUARTERS Australia Australla April 20 O. O UP UP- UP General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister John Curtin have reached complete agreement on plans for knocking out Japan Jaan by bya a concentration of ot allied strength it was announced Monday after a three hour conference of the two leaders General MacArthur and I are in complete agreement on general stra strategy eID for knocking out Japan by a concentration of ot our strength rather than dispersal said Cur- Cur tin Our conceptions of ot the wh whole e global strategy are identical cal t c cr r He said that allied ques describing the course of ot the war in the southwest Pacific soon will come from MacArthur headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters as the result of MacArthur's MacArthurs MacArthurs MacArthur's MacArthurs MacArthur's Mac Mac- Arthurs Arthur's formal assumption of supreme supreme supreme su su- su- su preme command on the Pacific battlefront Batter Datter Jap Bases As MacArthur and Curtin conferred conferred conferred con con- U U. S. S and Australian air squadrons battered at Japans Japan's island ba bases bases' es' es off Australia's Australla's s northern northern north north- ern em flank A dispatch fro from an in advanced al allied allied allied al- al lied airbase said that the allied planes perhaps including flying fortresses damaged ships airdrome airdrome airdrome air air- drome Installations and antiaircraft antiaircraft antiaircraft craft emplacements and destroyed or damaged numerous Japanese planes in a heavy Sunday attack on on New Britain island Several heavy Japanese bombers navy Zero fighters were destroyed on the ground at Ra Ra- baul and two other fighters were damaged by ne near near r misses while hits were scored on runways and airdrome buildings A medium medium- size transport in harbor was believed damaged and several sm smaller ller vessels were set afire Use American Planes Air Minister Arthur Drakeford announced that the Australian air forces now are are battling the Japanese Jap Jap- anese with A American Curtiss P 40 fighters P fighters and that the Australian fliers no longer are compelled to go Into action with planes more vulnerable than the enemy's and slower in speed The British radio recorded by byC C CBS B S qu quoted ted Drakeford as saying saying saying say say- ing that the a Japanese soon may maybe maybe maybe be compelled to abandon their New Guinea invasion base bases of ot Lae and as result of the intensified intensified intensified allied air attacks Men Hen Supplies Arrive Major General Richard K Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland erland MacArthurs MacArthur's chief chiet of staff and General Sir Thomas Blamey Blarney Australian commander of allied land forces under MacArthur attended attended attended at at- tended Mondays Monday's conference The Australian Associated Press said that additional arrival of troops planes and equipment and the increasing ever output lt of Australian Aus Aus- supplies is heartening those ch charged with the defense of Australia Australia Aus Aus- T Another War it Arrives for or Uncle Sams Sam's Men in in Lan Land Down Under t i t. t j i. i 4 M n. n i n S 1 fj r i f v. v tI i I IJ J S t tr r 1 J Ju u J y 41 a tH J a J k y t ty y s 4 y w wk t v r a i p r aa L N i w p i Ae 4 suma J ta cr 4 cV w H m c. c f i AMERICAN Al FIGHTER PLANE IS UNLOADED AT AUSTRALIAN PORT FROM FROl SHIP WHICH CROSSED PACIFIC IN CONVOY Where the p picture was taken taen was not disclosed However U U. y S S. S air forces in area are being rapidly expanded |