NEW LANDING IN PHIURPINES

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24546, 20 April 1945, Page 5

NEW LANDING IN PHIURPINES

UiS. FORCES ASHORE * ON MINDANAO LAST ISLANDNOT UNDER ALWED CONTROL (Rec. 9 pan.) WASHINGTON. April 18. American troop* have made a new landing on Mindanao, the laat ofthe Philippine Uland* not under Allied control. _ 0 _ , . ‘ A communique from General Mac* Arthur 1 * headquarter*. •ay#:--“The 10th Corps, .with naval and air support, swept ashore at MaUbana and Parang and secured a coastal stretch of 35 miles,, Tte enwny’ajiefence waa previously, dildooated by a guerrilla division operating; along the aborea- of Mowi Gull andnhle torce has joined the 10th Corps.The enemy's forces on Mindanao are estimated to

.\ « ' comprise three divisions, the 90th and IOOu Infantry Divisions and ajadged division of marines. The, gamaon force’s strength is probably 50,000 ground troops. - , "In Luzon our troops are .mopping' up vcave positions on the outsjdr& oi Baguio. i “A strong force of escorted heavies and mediums - without■ interception, strucfc Taikohu town and alrbaseSin Formosa with 360 tops of bomb*. HeaVies and lighters sank a/HMwtoh tanker and destroyed or damaged two small freighters oft the Canton* Foochow coast ' . .. “Australian ground forces in. the Wewak sector (Mew Guinea) have made: advances .of six -miles east of Dagua in face of : light, .opposition. Bomber* and fighters dropped ISO, tons in the Wewak area, and-to. Rahaul, New Ireland, and Bougainville."