NEW LANDINCS ON BORNEO

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23261, 24 July 1945, Page 5

NEW LANDINCS ON BORNEO

No Opposition Met Australian Operations By Telegraph—N.Z Pres. Ar.n Copyrlu-n • 1 a.m.i LONDON. July 22. Australian troops have made a landing at the south-east corner <>!' Borneo and have so far met no onposit ion. 'troops hi the Au-l ralian Seventh opposition at I’.alik I’.ip.in Bay on I r d.;v night established a six-milc* beachhead between the villages of l i'in.ml. and Bcrntigoc. teports the < of the "New York The landings -. ivr the Australians control of virtually all bars and me navicable will, rs oi the bay. I'ltcy now occupy approximt.lely a J5-mile strip :■ mi" tile eastern rliore of tire bay as well "as about a 12-niile snip on the western shore. American rocket -shins on Friday sai'ed up Ihe Riko Fiver and blasted a sir-ixsed Janiimse barge hide-out near the headwatr-i* pf the river with 1 Stacks' 1 oiNthe "Celebes reached a peak when Liberators wiped out the town of Tobili on Shildpad Island 011 the eastern section of Celebes, vvhic.) probably has the largest concentration o! Japanese troops east of Borneo, liberators also blasted an airfield from which planes might have interfered with the Australian landings.