ROAD TO RABAUL

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 5

ROAD TO RABAUL

Each Preparatory Step Now Longer

NEW YORK, September 30. The Allies will soon have the whole Huon Peninsula in New Guinea as a springboard for a final assault on New Britain and Rabaul, says the “New York Times.” “Thanks to our domination of the air each step we take by land and sea is longer than the last. “The Japanese find their own tactics of infiltration and outflanking- applied so successfully on the ground in the conquest of their new empire now being turned against them. They are being rapidly dislodged from strong positions on a scale which steadily widens, the field of their reverses. Strongholds which formerly would have taken months merely to reach are suddenly invested or attacked from the rear by airborne troops supported and supplied from the air.” The London “Evening Star” says the war in the Far East has reached a psychological turning point. “Yet we are still a long way from Tokio, whether by laud or sea,” it says. “It is only an offensive which carries us to the Japanese homeland that will destroy Japanese morale finally and for ever.”