JAPS. PRESSED
FLIGHT ON LEYTE AMERICAN ADVANCES ENEMY SUPPLIES CUT II a.nj.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. General MacArthur’s communique ■■ays: “Our ground forces have mace upstantial gains everywhere. The mpmy launched an unsuccessful tank attack in the 10th Corps sector. We breached the enemy's Palanas River !ipe In the. 24th Corps sector, where two.;., columns driving northwards :efiched points southwards of Baloga, -.if the coast, and Cangdagit, a village nland. “The enemy’s line of reinforcement :.y water through Ormoc Bay lias bepn cut by our naval and air forces, nd, With increasing pressure by our •rpund forces, the enemy situation in fist be regarded as serious. “Our fighters attacked enemy defences at Kenanga, six miles above Valencia, on the Ormoc road, and destroyed buildings and supply lumps,’. damaged road installations and strafed bivouac areas.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 6
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