SUCCESS IN NEW GUINEA
. AUSTRALIANS CAPTURE MAPRIK
MELBOURNE, April 26
Maprik, the key Japanese base in the Torricelli Mountains of northern New Guinea, has been captured by Australian troops. The enemy has thus lost one of his most valuable pivotal positions, since from Maprik tracks radiate north through the mountains to the coast and south to the Sepik River. The Australians' success was the result of weeks of bitter fighting among strategic approaches to the base. Separate infantry spearheads crushed desperate .Japanese resistance from strong entrenched positions. The capture of Maprik gives the Australians another emergency airstrip and control of a Government., admintrative centre. In their advance on Maprik the Australians had to contend with difficult country.
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Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 6
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