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IN ENTIRE NEW GUINEA AREA REPORTS OF ENEMY LANDINGS NOT CONFIRMED. AIR MINISTER’S WARNING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Service officials indicated at midnight that the position in the entire New Guinea area had become graver, although the latest wireless reports that enemy landings had actually been effected in the archipelago, are not confirmed. In Thursday’s communique, issued earlier, Mr Drakeford, Air Minister, gave a warning that a landing in the Bismarck Archipelago was expected as the prelude to an attempted invasion of New Guinea. This, it it feared, was for the purpose of establishing bases for an eventual attack on the Australian mainland. In the absence of definite information from Rabaul itself the fate of the garrison stationed in the town is unknown. Details of the evacuation of all women and children in Rabaul, complet-' ed some time ago, were released by the Government yesterday. Under the organisation of the Air Force a system of air ferries had been established with R.A.A.F. machines and civil air liners. By this method 700 women and children were carried away to a schedule that went through to the minute. ■
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 3
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