MADE BY AUSTRALIANS IN NEW GUINEA
Crest of Owen Stanley Range Crossed NO LARGE-SCALE JAPANESE OPPOSITION DEVASTATING AMERICAN RAIDS ON RABAUL LONDON, October 11. Australian troops in the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea are now believed to have covered the entire area of the Kokoda Gap over the mountains. They have made no further contact with the enemy since they met Japanese patrols last Friday. Encounters between the advancing Australians and Japanese patrols occurred in the Myola-Templeton’s Crossing area of the Owen Stanley Ranges, just north of Hell’s Gap, a special Australian correspondent reports. Today’s communique from General MacArthur’s headquarters, however, says that no further contact has occurred with the enemy in the past 24 hours. The Australians’ drive in New Guinea has now crossed the summit of the ranges. Myola is 10 miles beyond the Gap, and only 15 miles from the Japanese-held airfield at Kokoda, at the northern foothills of the ranges.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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155MADE BY AUSTRALIANS IN NEW GUINEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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