JAPANESE LOSSES
IN FINSCHHAFEN FIGHTING FLAME-THROWERS USED BY ENEMY IN ATTEMPT TO REOPEN SUPPLY LINE (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Over 1,000 Japanese have been killed in the past nine weeks’ fighting around Finschhafen and Satelberg in New Guinea. More than 150 were killed in the battle for Satelberg. This figure does not include dead whom the enemy managed to drag back to his own lines. While no official announcement has been made, war correspondents describe the A.I.F. casualties as extraordinarily light. The Japanese have used flame-throwers in an unsuccessful attempt to overwhelm the isolated Australian force which is astride their line of supply and retreat between Wareo and the sea. The enemy garrison moving back from Satelberg had been expected to make a stand at Wareo. The Japanese attacks lasted for nearly three hours, but failed to dislodge our men, who still occupy positions dominating the Wareo-Bonga trail. This isolated Australian force is being supplied from the air with food, water and ammunition.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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170JAPANESE LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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