PRESSING ON
AUSTRALIANS IN NEW GUINEA IN SPITE OF JAPANESE COUNTER-ATTACKS. EMERGENCE FROM JUNGLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 19. In spite of- Japanese coun-ter-attacks in New Guinea, the Australian ground forces are still pressing on in the Owen Stanley ' Mountains. They have now moved out of the jungle into rough, rocky timber country. The weather conditions are still bad.
STEADY PENETRATION
OF ENEMY DEFENCES IN DEPTH.
APPROACH TO KOKODA. SYDNEY, October 19. The Japanese are hanging tenaciously to positions in the heights of the Owen Stanley Rahges, but Allied troops are continuing their advance. 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.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 3
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