JAPANESE MOVE TOWARD PORT MORESBY
Penetration 40 Miles Inland PATROLS ENGAGE ENEMY IN LIGHT SKIRMISHING (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 27. Japanese troops who landed at Gona Mission, near Buna, last Wednesday, have penetrated nearly 40 miles inland along the track leading to Port Moresby. This was revealed in today’s communique from General MacArthur’s headquarters. It states that our patrols have engaged the enemy in “light skirmishing” at Awala. The point at which fighting occurred is about 20 miles to the north of the coastal side of the Owen Stanley range.
While preliminaries to a land action are indicated, our air units maintain unceasing attacks on Japanese forces in the Gona area. Aircraft, batteries, food and ammunition dumps were among Sunday’s targets for our bombers and it is believed that considerable damage was caused. One Japanese fighter was shot down In fierce dogfights over the sea and two of ours are missing.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 256, 28 July 1942, Page 5
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155JAPANESE MOVE TOWARD PORT MORESBY Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 256, 28 July 1942, Page 5
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