NEW GUINEA AREA
AUSTRALIAN AND ENEMY LOSSES JAPANESE MUCH HEAVIER. . GENERAL BLAMEY PRAISES WAR EFFORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY. This Day. The General Officer Commanding the Allied Land Forces in the South-west Pacific, General Sir Thomas Blarney, revealed that 3000 Australians had been killed in the New Guinea fighting. This was only a small percentage of the enemy losses. The Australian soldiers themselves had buried at least 9000 Japanese dead. “Victories such as those in the Owen Stanleys, Buna and Gona were won only by men with the conscious superiority of soldiers of the type of the Ninth Division,” said General Blarney. “It is a peculiar thing about an army that it is never any good until it is. a veteran army.” General Blarney praised the co-operation between the Americans and Australians in the combat zones and declared that Australia, with a population of seven millions, had kept more men in the field than any other part of the Empire as well as providing them with equipment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1943, Page 3
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