NO CHANGE IN NEW GUINEA
JAP. RESISTANCE CONTINUES.
P.A. Special.
SYDNEY, Oct. 26.
In the Owen Stanley Range the situation is reported to be imehanged. Fighting continues and our troops are meeting determined enemy resistance from prepared positions. In support of the land forces Havoc attack planes strafed the trail between Isurava and Kokoda, while the area south of Wairopi was bombed. The Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, has sent a message to General MacArthur expressing "appreciation of the magnificent effort put forward by our Allied forces under most difficult conditions, and of the splenclid fight being waged in New Guinea by Australian and American forces against the Japanese invaders." Replying on behalf of the Allied forces, General MacArthur has reiterated to Mr Curtin "assurances of a complete effort in the great suuyle now raging."
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 253, 27 October 1942, Page 5
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