MOROBE CAPTURED
JAP. NEW GUINEA POST SYDNEY, April 4. Further gains have been made by the Allied .land forces working their way west along the northern coast of New Guinea. The spokesman at General Mac Arthur's headquarters has announced the occupation of Morobe, 65 miles south-east of Salamaua. Morobe, which is at the mouth of the Waria River, is 20 miles on the northern side of the Papuan border. This process of cleaning out the Japanese from pockets along the i coast has been going on since the i end of the Papuan campaign. Recently it was announced that the 1 Mambare sector of Papua—on the i New Guinea border —had been l cleared of the enemy, and that since i the end of the fighting at Buna <00 i Japanese had been killed by 0111 . troops in their SO miles pusn alon D , the coast. . Combined with th ls land dm Allied aircraft are increasing then r uresnue on the Japanese garrisons ■ in Northern New Guinea, b weeps • have again been made over the jg, I enemy's new coastal supply road.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 80, 5 April 1943, Page 3
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