LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1945, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

PACIFIC CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON, July 19. Elements of the Seventh Division secured the Sambodja oilfield centre. 28 miles north-east of Balikpapan, as the Australians pressed enemy forces deeper inland in all sectors, says General MacArthur’s communique. Air and light naval units caused numerous fires and much destruction in attacks against enemy coastal targets. Search planes sank a freighter and fired one at Samarinda, and fired another at Banjarmasin. Fighters fired a fuel barge and heavily damaged a river boat near Sibu. The Fifth and Seventh .Air Force fighter bombers made lowlevel bombing and strafing attacks on railway communications and shipping in waterfront areas of Southern Kyushu and waters to the south. Railroad tunnels, north-west and southwest of Kagoshaina, the principal port and important rail centre of South-east Kyushu, was sealed by direct bomb hits, and’a third tunnel damaged.. Many watercraft near Miyaoaki, East Coast, were left unserviceable. Docks were fired and a 10.000-ton carao ship destroyed off Amami Island. Scheduled attacks on Formosa were cancelled because of adverse weather. , MOTHER AND BABY. NAPIER, July 20. Ethel Minnis Harvey. married, 28, appeared before Mr. Miller, S.M., this morning charged with the murder of her two weeks’ old son, Robert Harvey. She was remanded until August 2. Details gathered by the police state

the woman shortly after three o clock this morning walked down to the beach, with the baby into the sea. A. heavy surf was running. She js believed to have thrown her baby on the beach, but the baby is still missing. The police search is continning. Accused is aged 28. and is the mother of four other children. RETURNED SOLDIERS. The West Coast members of the party of repatriated New Zealand prisoners of war who returned to New Zealand this week from England, arrived home by railcar from Christchurch this afternoon. There were 21 in the party, including six for Greymouth, four for south of Greymouth and two for Blackball. The , Blackball men detrained at Stillwater and the Westport men came on to Greymouth, leaving later by railcar for Westport. There was an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred people who packed the platform to welcome the men at the Greymouth railway station when the railcar arrived at 2.55 p.m. There was no official welcome, but the men received a hearty reception from their relations and friepds. Cheers were given as the railcar came to a halt, and the whistles of railway locomotives in the yard assisted in the welcome. The .Mayor (Mr. F. A. Kitchmgham) and Mrs. Kitchingham, members of local bodies, the R.S.A. and the Periotic Society were present.