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...fought the invaders with pistols, knives and bayonets. Allied planes machine-gunning snipers in treetops, sheared the trees until they looked like hedgerows. Allied bombers raided the Jap base at Buna, which barked back with newly emplaced ack-ack guns. The righting was the heaviest yet seen in New Guinea; casualties ran high. But still the Japs kept coming. They fought their way up and over the highest ridges, started downhill after the slowly retreating Australians...
...seaborne Jap attack on the defenders of Port Moresby might be attempted to aid the overland attack. Even while Jap troops squirmed through the jungles, Jap warships slipped into Milne Bay and shelled that hard-held Allied position on the tip of New Guinea. Milne Bay reported only last week that the remnants of the recent Jap landing expedition there had finally been mopped up (no prisoners were taken...
...could beat the enemy on his fronts. The U.S. Navy and Marines in the Pacific had found enough ships, men and planes to overwhelm the thinly extended Japs in the Solomons. MacArthur and his Australians were ready with enough troops to set back, perhaps defeat, the Japs in New Guinea. Even the Chinese, supported by a small U.S. air force, had concentrated enough power to take full advantage of Jap withdrawals in Chekiang and Kiangsi. Plainly the Japs were suffering more from their dispersals than the Allies suffered at the points of specific action last week...
...second time in the South Pacific the Japs got a bellyful of surprise. Chased out of bases in the Solomons, last week they decided to attack Milne Bay, which lies at the southern tip of New Guinea. They headed south in warships and transports. Allied fighter planes lugging small bombs spotted them, strafed their transports and sank a gunboat. But under a screen of low-lying clouds and a tropical downpour, they ducked into the ten-mile-wide mouth of Milne Bay, launched barges and poured out on the swamp-fringed shore...
...only was it a bellyful of surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at Port Moresby. His land forces have worn themselves out on New Guinea's sharp-humped backbone. Now a sweep around the seacoast had been wrecked...