CAPTURE OF KOKODA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 109, 4 November 1942, Page 5

CAPTURE OF KOKODA

Australian Success In Papua

(By Telegraph—Press "Association— CtpyrlgM.) rSpecial Australian 'CiciWeSpoiiaeitit.) SYDNEY, November 3, Kokoda has been recaptured by Allied trooiws, and the Japanese are retreating towards the coast of north A desperate attempt by the enemy to reinforce Buna #dth troops estimated to number 7000 has been frustrated by Allied bombers, which battered a Japanese convoy, forcing it to retire to the north. The Allies have thus achieved their most important success of the Papuan campaign. The Allied troops began their advance from loribaiwi, on the southern slopes of the Owen Stanley Range, on September 28. and they have thus reached Eokoda in 36 days. The Japanese advance from Kokoda to loribaiwi took 52 days. -r After passing Alola last Friday our forces divided on two trails forking' toward the Kokd&a area. On Sunday they recaptured Isurava, on the western "trail, and Jibuari, on the eastern trail. The capture of Itokoda appears to haVe been made by the column advancing 'along' the Isurava trail.