HAMPERED BY STORMS
ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN
PAPUA
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, October 23. Severe tropical storms are hampering the Allied offensive near Eora Creek village, where the Japanese are fighting grimly to hold their last position on the heights of the Owen Stanley Range. But in spite of the incessant downpour attacks are still being pressed home. Yesterday a slight further advance was made after frontal and flanking assaults. If the present rains are the beginning of the New Guinea rainy season, which is normally due early in November, the task of maintaining Allied supplies over the slippery, muddy trails will be seriously complicated. The recent Allied gains have been made only after .stiff fighting, but the extent of the casualties on either side has not been indicated. The spokesman at General MacArthur's headquarters said today that it was difficult to provide aerial support for our troops at the present Stage of the operations because of the closeness- of the combat and the nature of the country, combined with the weather. In the early stages of the Allied advance, when the opposing forces were usually well separated, enemy posi-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 7
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