SUCCESSFUL RUSE
•' ' _____ JAPANESE DECEIVED/"" Rec. 1.15 p.m.. SYDNEY, Sept. 14. "The New Guinea campaign has been most successfully carried out on the principles of enveloping and cutting the enemy off from his supply lines," said General Blarney. "Our ruse in feinting at Salamaua was more effective than we hoped. Salamaua became a magnet drawing enemy man-power, munitions, and supplies while the Allies built up their forces for the attack on Lac." ' General • Blarney added that the Allied estimate of the size of the Lac .garrison had been pruned. The feeble resistance encountered in Lac's outer defences showed that the strength of the. base was waning. The garrison at Lac was doomed. The Japanese should never have allowed the Australian troops to cross the Busu River four miles east of Lac. If the Japanese had had a considerable force they would have attempted to'hold the; Australians there, said General Blarney. Allied air and sea control would prevent .the" enemy from landing supplies or taking men out of Lac.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 6
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