WITHDRAWAL FORCED
LAST STAND IN THE RANGES GRADUAL PROGRESS IN NEW GUINEA.
P.A. Special.
SYDNEY, Oct. 21.
Despite their continued tenacious resistance, the Japanese in the heights of the Owen Stanley Rangesare gradually being driven back. They are now occupying new positions about three miles north of Templeton 's Crossing, to which they were forced to withdraw by successful Australian outflanking and encircling attacks. In a desperate effort to retain foothold on this last strip of high ground in the Gap area the Japanese have brought up light artillery as well as mortars. The latest Allied gain was made after an advaneed unit had succeeded in occupying a position in the rear of the Japanese forward troops. When their costly counter- attacks failed to eliminate the threat of Allied encirclement, the Japanese witihdrew. Failure to hold their present positions may mean that the enemy will be forced to withdraw from an altitude of 6500 feet to Kokoda, only 1500 feet above sea level.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MEX19421022.2.42.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 249, 22 October 1942, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
163WITHDRAWAL FORCED Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 249, 22 October 1942, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Marlborough Express. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in