Enemy Base In Timor Bombed
Rec. 11.30 p.m. Sydney, Aug. 21. The Allied air force is maintaining pressure against Timor, where our troops are reported to be still resisting the enemy. Medium bombers on Thursday struck at Maobisse. practically in the centre of the island, described in to-day's Allied headquarters communique as "an ! area occupied by enemy troops." Bombs; were dropped in the target area, resulting in large explosions, indicating that fuel or ammunition dumps had been hit. Besides dropping high explosives and incendiaries Allied planes ma'hine-gun-ned buildings and road transport. There has been no combat activity in the Kokoda sector of Papua recently. A headquarters spokesman described the present inactivity as "merely a lull." The opposing forces are still approximately :the same strength as last reported. The fighting at Kokoda so far has not justiIfied classification as a major engagement.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19420822.2.60
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
141Enemy Base In Timor Bombed Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. 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