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The Port Arthur News
PORT ARTHUR. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1942.
Americans Capture
Triangle In Guinea
BUNA TRAP
CLOSING ON
JAPANESE
Bitter Defense Is Put
Up By Nips; Burma
Raided By RAF
By The Associated Frets
H a r d - fighting American
troops in New Guinea were of-
ficially credited today with the
capture of the "bloody: tri-
angle, a series of 13 fortified
bunkers bitterly defended by the
Japanese, while other Allied force
slowly closed a trap around the
enemy's narrow beach corridor at
Buna,
Front-line dispatches said the
Americans drove out th* Japanese
piecemeal and then inflicted heavy
casualties in beating off an enemy
counterattack,
One Jap On 8 Guns
The fierceness of the Japanese
defense was illustrated when
American soldiers mopping up on
sector found a single Japanese op
crating eight machine guns by
means of strings and' wires rigged
in a series.
CHINA MISSION
TO LEAVE U.S,
Military Group Expresses
Disappointment
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (INS).—
China's military mission -to the
United' 'States today Is preparing
to return home to Chungking.
Not Expected To Return
One or two members of, the mission
may be left In Washington
as liaison officers, but most of the
group; headed by Gen. Haiung
Shlh-Fei, are going back to China,
and they are not expected to return
to the United-States.
Return of the mission to China
is due partly to reasons of a personal
nature and partly because
General Haiung and his associates
feel the United States is not paying
sufficient 'attention to China's
role in"the war.
War In Brief
WASHINGTON.—Navy communique
announces sinking of
two more Jap ships In the Solomons
as ground action Is resumed
on Guadalcanal.
RUSSIA. — Russians capture
key rail town near Stalingrad
and push on toward Rostov.
-NEW GUINEA.—Allies widen
wedge in Jap beach positions.
AFRICA.—French forces advance
in drive to cut coastal
road between Tripolitanla and
Tunisia
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