The Portsmouth Times
PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1942
ALLIES PREPARE FOR
BIG TUNISIAN DRIVE;
GONA CLEAR OF JAPS
RESERVES POUR
UP TO FIGHTING
ZONE FOR PUSH
Air Support Is Reported
Adequate Now To Keep
Forces Protected
By The Associated Press
The veteran British First army
was reported today to have
weathered the crisis of German
counter attacks on the Tunisian
front and overcome its earlier
deficiency of air strength, as reserves
streamed forward for a
renewal of the British and Amer-
ican onslaught.
ONE ANCHOR OF
DEFENSE LINES
AT BUNA FALLS
Only Narrow Strip Now Is
Left To Enemy Along
New Guinea Shore
By The Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Dec. 10-Complete
occupation of the Gona
area of New Guinea by Allied
forces directed in the field by
General Douglas MacArthur himself
was announced today.
The Japanese thus lost the
northern anchor of their stubbornly-
defended but ever-narrowing
beachhead in Papua, a
foothold already cut into segments
by Australian and American
jungle fighters.
Prime Minister John Curtin
made the first announcement of
the Gona conquest in the midst
of a war review before the house
of representatives in Canberra,
the federal capital.
Long: Time To Mop Up
AUSTRALIA TOLD
HITLER IS NO. 1
Prime Minister Says War
Of Defense Necessary
Until Reich Falls
By The Associated Press
CANBERRA. Australia. Dec.
10—Prime Minister John Curtin
told the house of representatives
in a war review today that Pres-
ident Roosevelt and Prime Min-
ister Churchill decided even be-
fore the fall of Singapore that
their first task was to defeat
Germany.
That decision, he said, involved
Australia in what essentially
is a holding campaign,
(Singapore fell last Feb. 15.)
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