OSLO RAIDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 7

OSLO RAIDED

R.A.F. SCARES QUISLINGS

LONDON, September 25. R.A.F: bombers attacked objectives in Oslo in daylight today. One of them was lost.

A heavy bomb explosion interrupted a speech by Quisling, and his bodyguard and followers took to the cellars

it is believed that the enemy is using the village as an advanced base to prevent Allied ground reconnaissance of the activities at Salamaua.

VITAL BRIDGE BOMBED

Allied aircraft continued their attacks on the bridge over the Kumusi River at Wairopi, on the Kokoda trail. Already the bridge has been once destroyed and several times damaged, but after each new attack the Japanese work feverishly to rebuild it, since it is vital to their supply system. Today's communique also mentions an attack on the aerodrome at Kokoda. The headquarters spokesman said that no Japanese air activity was observed on the aerodrome, but that there were signs that work had been carried out.

This indication of the Japanese intention to use the Kokoda aerodrome supports the view that the Japanese cannot delay too long a move against Port Moresby if they wish to avoid the enormously complicated transport difficulties presented by the rainy season, which is due in a few weeks. .

At the height of the rains 10 to 12 inches fall daily on jungle tracks which are already deep in slippery mud today. The consequent slowing up of transport would make enemy lines of communication increasingly vulnerable to the Allied air attacks.

JAP FRONTAL ATTACKS

The Japanese have not succeeded in New Guinea by outflanking movements alone, declares a British observer in the area. Their direct attacks on Aus tralian forward positions had often be<*n fierce and sustained.

Some ten miles south of Kokoda. they attacked forward companies al most incessantly for four days. Six times one Australian company was driven off the ridge. Five times it regained the lost eround. The sixth time it failed, but there was then less than half the original company left. Another company's position was overrun by the enemy hut thp troops stuck there and were still fighting two days later.

The same kind of fighting went on all the way back Many outflanking movements were directed against the Australian unit headquarters and lines of communication.