JAPANESE ROUTED
SYDNEY, December 31. The Japanese rearguard is fleeing northwards along the coast of the Huon Peninsula and has become a disorganised rabble. Enemy soldiers are flinging away arms and equipment in their flight to escape from the pursuing Australians. Stragglers weak from starvation and dysentery have been captured, while the bodies of many who died along the track have been found. War correspondents accompanying the Australian drive say there is no doubt that the rearguard of the strong Japanese force which for so long menaced the Allied base at Finschhafen has been defeated and dispersed. It is probable that the Japanese, realising that their forces on the peninsula have been outflanked by the American landings on Cape Gloucester and Long Island, are withdrawing to Sio, their main supply and barge base between Madang and the Huon Peninsula. The Australian forces are now within 30 miles of Sio.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1944, Page 5
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