FUGITIVE PRISONERS.
STOP PRESS
AU'OK'LA.X'D.—The only new development in the search for the escaped prisoners, Alaxnekl and Wilson, who 'blasted their way to freedom from* Auckland Gaol on Monday afternoon, was the discovery yesterday of two articles of prison clothing. The find was made in a patch of ibusli near a playing (field at the rear of .St. Joseph's Convent, Itemuera. It is believed that the clothing was discarded 'by Wilson.
JAPS' LAST BID. SYDNEY, July 13. Several thousand Japanese troops trapped in British New Guinea are nowconcentrating for a battle in a desperate effort to !break through the Allied net of eucire'eunent. . The opening skirmishes are already tak-
ing place. This was announced by General MacArthur'e last comanunique, which says that remnants of the Japanese Eighteenth Army trapped (between Wewak and Aitape are driving against the American forces to the west. Originally esti-mated-to number 60,000, it is .believed that 25 per cent, of the Japanese forces have Ibeen destroyed by. Allied air action and !by starvation: and disease. The enemy commander is General Adachi.
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Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 10
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175FUGITIVE PRISONERS. Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 10
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