Show ALLIES SPLIT I i I BUNA JAPS I ALLIED HEADQUARTERS D AUSTRALIA Dee Dec 31 UP Th Thi I thinning Japanese defense line Une ne nei nea I f I Buna New Guinea has been dl di vided by allied troops that hav S driven a wedge to the sea sea and az t th i remaining enemy strongholds a ara being pounded unceasingly bY both ground and air forces Ge r eral MacArthurs MacArthur's headquarters a an as s today i tt The enemy is being forced inter an ever narrowing area a com com- saidOn said i iOn On the left our troops have hav t driven their wedge to the sea zen an and split the enemy defense zones On the right an attack with tanks tanka broadened and deepened the wedge capturing much equipment Including Including ing three-inch three naval guns craft guns and machine guns i t- t The called the thi ground action tireless local i a as u I j The allied wedge head hUd was I lodged on several hundred yards yards' of beach between Buna Buns mission and Giropa point thus effectively isolating the Japanese garrisons at those points 1 The allied air force also ranged over the strong Japanese base at New Britain in a dawn n attack Wednesday to lay OO pound bombs directly on two ves vessels vessels sels of from to ton each and to hit an ton to trans transport port in an attack at mast height The said that ln in tense antiaircraft fire met the al allied allied allied al- al lied fliers filers but that all of ot the planes returned 5 1 Strafing of the Funaro air field and a collection of ot huts at Betanc on Timor island also was re reported ported j It was disclosed meanwhile that Australian commandos and Dutch Dutch guerrillas who have rejected Japanese Japa Japa- I nese nose demands to surrender tIlI are at t work throughout much of Portuguese Timor blowing up upi 1 bridges burning camps and snip Ing at the enemy enemy killing killing them In Inthe Inthe the ratio of a hundred Japs to one commando |