REMARKABLE FORTITUDE
(Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, Oet. 5.
A. party, of 30 Australians have reached safety after fighting their way through the enemy-held Owen Stanley jungle 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, 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 that tho soldier had not been carried on a stretcher. A piano has been transported to New Guinea by air for the entertainment of Allied troops in the bomb rack of a Flying Fortress and is now housed in a tent in the middle of the jungle.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 263, 6 October 1942, Page 5
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