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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 8

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BALIK PAPAN RAIDED.

Sydney.—The advance 'of ■'- ttifcAllied bomber line in the South-; .west Pacific has now made possible heavy attacks on Balik Papan, inBorneo, a major Japanese fuel storage centre and the enemy's most important source of aviationspirit and lubricating oils. General.. MiacArthur's communique . reports the first mass raid, and says Allied planes were intercepted! by 30. •Japanese : fighters, of ■ which seven were shot down, with several, others damaged. "We lost three planes. The latest raids on Zamboanga (Mindanao), in the southern Philippines,: resulted .in the iestruction or damage of-a fuel;aden\vessel, a large, flying-boat,, and 10 other aircraft.—P.A. cable..

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