FIERCE FIGHTING
ON NEAR APPROACHES TO FINSCHHAFEN JAPANESE RESISTING STUBBORNLY. BUT AUSTRALIANS DRIVING IN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In the final drive on. Finschhafen, the Japanese Huon Peninsula base in New Guinea, the Australians are engaged in the heaviest fighting since the Buna campaign. The Japanese resistance is aimed at making the loss of v nschhafen as cosily as poss'blo ff the Allies. Shock troops broke through 'he core of enemy defences at Bum R'ver three-quarters of a mile north Finschhafen. Bridgeheads were held, and enlarged, to cover the crossing of the main forces. Under the full weight of the Australian attack, the Japanese are steadily falling back towards the township and strong opposition is expected farther on, towards Langemark Bay, near the Finschhafen anchorage, where the defenders have been feverishly working on cross-fire machine-gun trenches and snipers' posts. The enemy opposition at the Bumi River provided the first warning that the capture of the base would be difficult. In the Lae campaign the failure of the Japanese to make a stand at the outer defences, on the Busu River, foretold the collapse of the inner defences.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1943, Page 6
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