ANOTHER LANDING

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 5

ANOTHER LANDING

Twelve Miles East Of Hollandia PATROL OPERATION (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.! (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received May 8, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 8. With a new landing at Bougainville Bay 20 miles east of Hollandia, American forces now hold about 50 miles o coastline in Dutch New Guinea Their expanding Hollandia beach-head ex 3s tri Demta in tl» wem to B» : the American force, which landed at Bougainville Bay in^the operations round Hollandia now total 73'2 Additional prisoners have been taken, the last in'the more than Hso—a record numbu in tne qnuth-west Pacific theatie. . . . Though the Hollandia land campaign is without encountering tween. Alexishafen an Japanese Americans clearing o' . while stragglers at Aitape P and SO Ti e fp C d e ot y hers have been found in the

““while the being consolidated. Guinea . g being^intens'ifiedb Kuteh Banda Sea, between limor a Xrday We the stdta Eluding an attack on an y eight-ship enemy convoy. Attack on Convoy. Barn l® laa •• Molucca Passage, about ern end of the MO ,:i;„pines. Cata--500 miles south of the lill p J e hip on linas also bombed Namlea « abandoned in Liberators and R.A.A planes Saturday morning. blew up .two parked aueratt « MitcheU large fires. . , D , ut S^ a se airfields in bombers P“ nls , he<l „ n Ja t he same day. To the Kai jjd the Japanese none of these stLiberators offer any figh er OPPomU« Bay> were over Ban., is lan . t ]-,i r( i succesDutch New Guinea for the third . WewakJHawi : agU .„ ’ shore batteries separate raids’ . based bombers made our W J ™ "ffsVot down by anti-aircraft Are-