MISSING SIX WEEKS
AUSTRALIANS NOW SAFE FOUGHT BACK TO LINES (Special Australian Correspondent.) (10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 6. A party of 30 Australians have reached safety after fighting their way through enemy-held jungle in the Owen Stanley ranges for six weeks. They have been missing since the action in the Kokoda area about the middle of August. On several occasions they encountered Japanese patrols. They supplemented their diet of roots and berries and a few fruits with rations taken from the men they killed. Another remarkable return to safety has been made by a South Australian private who made his way for 15 days through the precipitous ranges with a broken leg. In hospital the doctors refused to believe the soldier had not been carried on a stretcher.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 6 October 1942, Page 3
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