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BATTLE FOR
RIVER
Japanese Lose
Nearly 3000
"The Age" Special Representative
GENERAL MACARTHUR'R
HEAD QUARTERS, Monday. —
Nearly 3000 enemy dead have
been counted in the Drlniumor
River area since fighting began
on July 11. To-day's communique
announces a further 1385 known
dead.
The additional dead were
mostlv killed in the attacks made
on July 23 and 24.
Our ground forces west of the
Driniumor are still mopping up
the enemy who managed to cross
the river, but patrols on the other
side of the river report that most
of the units who were to the east
have moved inland to the foot-
hills of the Torricelli Range,
south-east of Afua.
There are still sizeable enemy
concentrations in the Yakamul
area, about six miles east of the
mouth of the Driniumor, but they
are being attacked daily from the
air.
Nearly 100 sorties were made
on Saturday by Beauforts, Beau-
fighters, Bostons, Thunderbolts,
Airacobras and a Mitchell. Be-
tween them they dropped 55 tons
of bombs between Yakamul and
Wewak.
R.A.A.F. and Dutch Mitchells
dropped 39 tons of bombs on Pen-
foel airfield near Koepang, in
Timor, and others hit Koepang
itself. Fires were started, but
adverse weather prevented full
observation of the results of the
strike.
At Boela, the oil centre on the
north coast of Ceram, Liberators
dropped 25 tons on the airfield,
also starting fires. Mitchells
bombed and strafed villages on
the east coast of Morotai, in the
Halmahera group, and a Libera-
tor attacked a merchant vessel
off the coast of Talaud Island,
half way between Morotai and
Mindanao. Woleai was again at-
tacked by Liberators, which
dropped 26 tons of bombs, and
navy Venturas damaged installa-
tions on Sawatan Island, 161
miles south-east of Truk.
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