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Allies Near Sanananda

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Allied troops closed in today on Sanananda, last Japanese stronghold in the Papuan area of New Guinea, as Allied planes subjected enemy bases to some of the heaviest bombings of the war.

Reports from the front were meagre but the Wednesday communique from Gen. MacArthur's main headquarters here indicated that the struggle for Sanananda, two and one-half miles up the coast from Allied-hold Buna, had begun.

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