RAIDS IN PAPUA
JAPANESE NIGHT ATTACKS
(Rec. 2.20 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18. A correspondent .in.. ...Sydney gives news of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua, which was brought, by a traveller. ' .
The night, he says, is-filled. with the whine of Japanese dive bombers, the crack of anti-aircraft guns, and the clatter.of machine-guns. The Japanese are using mostly "daisy-cutter" bombs. The houses are deserted,.as,the natives have gone into the bush.. Australian taks : off.' every.:'night ■ and re- ■ iur-n hours' later with empty bombracks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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81RAIDS IN PAPUA Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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