ESCAPE FRUSTRATED
Japanese In Wewak-Hansa Bay Area (Received May 18, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 18. Sustained Allied air attacks are frustrating Japanese attempts to escape front the Wewtik-llausa Bay area of British New Guinea. It -is believed that evacuation by. air of high-ranking enemy officers has been nipped in the bud. Japanese efforts to lay down emergency airstrips for use by transport planes have been in vain. Repeated bombing raids have destroyed almost completed work. Possible attempts to make a hazardous escape by sea have been prevented by the destruction of barges. Twelve of these craft were destroyed in the latest attacks on Wewak reported by General MacArthur’s communique today. American patrols on Bougainville Island, in the Solomons found 250 dead Japanese in an abandoned hospital located .north-east of the United States Torokina perimeter.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 198, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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134ESCAPE FRUSTRATED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 198, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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