BUNA CAPTURED
TAKEN BY STORM
LONDON, December 15. Less than an hour ago General Mac Arthur announced that Buna village, the main Japanese re-
sistance point left in the north-east coast of New Guinea, had been taken by storm. The final attack was preceded by a violent barrage of mortar shells, and then the infantry swept in. By 10 o'clock this morning Buna was ours.
The Japanese made one more desperate eleventh-hour attempt to send hi fresh troops and supplies, but it broke down under the fierce Allied air attack.
V Two enemy cruisers and three destroyers tried to effect a landing near Buna, but they were intercepted by. our planes. Landing barges were sunk and several hits scored on the warships. Japanese survivors trying to swim ashore suffered heavy ; casualties, and supplies were set on fire. With the fall of Buna, practically the whole of Papua is;now back in Allied hands. Presumably, the enemy still holds out at Buna Mission, and at : Sananarida Point, to the west.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1942, Page 3
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