ENEMY STILL IN OWEN STANLEYS
STRONG RESISTANCE (Special Australian Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) (Ifec. 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 19. The Japanese are hanging tenaciously to their positions in the heights of the Owen Stanley Range. But Allied troops are continuing their advance. The fighting has moved north of Templeton’s Crossing and is now near Eora Creek, a village only 10 miles (less than eight hours’ march) from the key village of Kokoda at the northern foothills of the ranges. On Sunday night the Japanese made a series of counter-attacks—their first since the fall of loribaiwa on October 1. They were repulsed with heavy casualties. Allied troops have captured mortars, light machine-gnns and other equipment. The extent of our losses has not been reported. The Japanese defences have been revealed to be in considerable depth. Posts were found in all stages of the latest Allied two-mile advance, the enemy being blasted out by flanking patrols and mortar fire . Supporting our ground troops, Allied aircraft strafed the Wairopi area. Allied air activity has also included raids on Manus Island in the Admiralty group on Tileolo, 70 miles off the coast of New Britain, and on Mubo, inland from Salamaua. The dock and an enemyoccupied village on Tileolo Island were set on fire. At Mubo the attack caused fires and troop casualties. FIGHTING IN INDIES Surrender Of Dutch Party (Special Australian Correspondent N.Z.P.A.I (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 19. Alter nine months’ resistance to the Japanese in Borneo 69 Dutch officers and men have surrendered. The capI tyre of this party had beeh previously j claimed seven times by Tokyo, but it | was only when the Dutchmen’s ammunition was exhausted that they finally abandoned the fight. Although the Japanese announced that Dutch resistance had completely ceased throughout the Netherlands East Indies, reports reaching Dutch headquarters in Australia still tell of battlewounded Japanese soldiers being admitted to Batavian hospitals. FRENCHMEN ESCAPE Far East Occupied Areas CHUNGKING, October 17. Chungking is rapidly becoming the headquarters of Frenchmen escaping from occupied areas in the Far East J and hoping to join the Fighting French. Six men have arrived in the last few weeks, including Major Pierre Louyads, of the French Air Force in Indo-China. He said the Japanese strength in Indo-China was only 20,000 men, most of whom, including the Air Force, were concentrated in the Saigon area. He revealed that Allied submarines were active off the Indo-China coast, and that they had sunk many warships and transports near Camranh Bay, forcing the Japanese to abandon it as a naval i base. I
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Southland Times, Issue 24879, 20 October 1942, Page 5
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425ENEMY STILL IN OWEN STANLEYS Southland Times, Issue 24879, 20 October 1942, Page 5
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