JAPANESE MOVE AHEAD
PLAN NOT YET CLEAR
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.)
- SYDNEY, July 28. Today's communique reveals that the enemy advanced forces from Buna have now penetrated 55 miles from the coast of Papua. They have again been in contact with the Allied patrols at Oivi, east of Kokoda. on the track from Buna to Port Moresby. The objective of the enemy penetration so far inland is not yet clear. However, in view of the difficult country ahead it is generally considered highly improbable the Japanese intend an immediate direct overland attack on Port Moresby. .
•More likely to the purpose is that they have fanned out to protect an aerodrome to be established in the Gona area near Buna as a base for lighter interception of the Allied bombers attacking ,their south-west Pacific strongholds, and from which to concentrate heavier bombing attacks on Port Moresby. Gona, after six days of heavy Allied air attacks, is thick with bombcraters. The Allied claims to have caused considerable damage in the area .are generally regarded as conservative.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1942, Page 5
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