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Dutch RainHeavy Bombers And Dive-Bombing Fighters Catch Squadron Of Warships And Transports.Sabang Bombed(By HENRY HOGGENDORN)BATAVIA, N. E. I., Jan. 23—(/Pt— Heavy bomb rs and dive-bombing fighters of the Duth East Indies air forces caught a squadron of Japanese warships and a train of invasion transports in the Strait of Macassar today and left them crippled with twelve direct hits on eight ships.Making superb use of their Amrri-can-built aircraft in the narrow waters which the Japanese invaders of the Dutch East Indies now are endeavoring to penetrate, the Dutch flying fl et came back to their base without a single casualty of their own. This was their score, announced in aspecial communique:One large warship, perhaps a battleship, directly hit by 300 kilogram (660 pound) bombs.One heavy cruiser, one light cruiser and one large transport struck by bombs.of the same caliber.A destroyer, two large transports and one smaller ship, dive-bombed bvfighters and hit with 80-kilo (175pound) bombs.The strait in which the attack was delivered lies b tween the islands of Borneo and Celebes, upper defenses Df the Indies and both of them invaded in part by Japanese fore s.It was in timely anticipation of just such a move for additional landings that the Dutch yesterday put the torch to the oil wells and refineries of Balik Papan, Borneo east coaet port more than 300 miles south of Tara-kan.Delay Future LandingsThus today’s aerial foray (possibly carried out from secret inland airports which the Dutch are reputed to have established in the jungles of Borneo) was important in at least dt laving or weakening further landing attempts.On the debit side of the ledger the NE.I., command today reiorted two lew raids on Belawan Deli, the port for Medan, Sumatra, by Japanese lomb rs which dropped manv bombs, damaging some sheds and ships and wounding 16 persons. An Aneta agency correspondent in Medan reported most casualties resulted from a near mics on an air raid shelter trench.Sabang, on We island five miles off the northern tip of Sumatra, was oombed again, but two ships which were the targets were unhit. The airport at Palembang, South Sumatra, was raided by 27 Japanese fighters and two persons were wounded.Use of fighters here indicated they were based on conquered Malayan bases above Singapore.The airdrome of Gorontalo, probably on th * part of Minahassa peninsula not occupied by the Japanese, was attacked with incendiary bombs.Dutch air raids yesterday on the Japanese forces occupying Kuching, capital of Sarawak, on the wrcst side if Borneo, fired storage yards at theriver mouth.
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