Word: timorous
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...anxious to create a diversion. In Canberra last week the Australian Government announced that it had "ample evidence" that the Japanese were preparing "a move of the utmost importance." All along the great arc of islands above Australia new concentrations had been sighted. Reconnaissance had spotted new airfields on Timor, 300 miles from Darwin. The increasing tempo of Allied raids directed at Timor and the naval base of Amboina was a measure of Australian nervousness...
Prime Minister John Curtin warned his country three times within the week that some dangerous new Japanese initiative was possible. He mentioned Timor and The Netherlands Indies as possible springboards. Said he: "The concentration of which the Japanese is capable . . . may be stronger than the resistance which we can concentrate...
...most gallant guerrilla stories of the war was brought out of Timor last week by Australian Correspondent Bill Marien...
...Aussie unit, whose nickname was the Sparrow Force, was driven to the hills when the Japs attacked Timor with a superior force in February. The Sparrows had rifles, a few machine guns, a little ammunition and 400 miles of open sea between themselves and refuge. Their only hope was radio contact with Darwin...
...dotted with some 200 small islands divided into three archipelagos. Last week Tokyo Radio claimed that Japanese troops had occupied some more of these islands. There was no one to dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They have been unmolested except for occasional bombing raids, usually by outmoded Australian Lockheed Hudsons. Last week's inch put them within 300 miles of Darwin...