AUSTRALIAN TROOPS
FIGHTING AS GUERILLAS IN TIMOR ALL ATEMPTS AT CAPTURE DEFIED. BOMBERS NOW GIVING SUPPORT. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Australian guerillas are still harassing the Japanese occupation force in Timor. They are operating from hills in the centre of the 300-mile long island, and for seven months have defied enemy efforts to capture them. During the past few weeks they have held up Japanese attempts to move inland from Beco, on the south-east coast. Australian-based bombers are helping the guerillas by attacking Japanese troops and supplies. Though small, the Australian force is able to offer organised resistance, states a spokesman at the South-west Pacific Headquarters. The guerillas are the remnants of an Australian force which, with Dutch troops, moved into Portuguese Timor on December 17 last to forestall the Japanese. The Japanese captured the island five weeks later, and the guerillas have operated since then.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1942, Page 2
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