JAPANESE OUTCLASSED
War Correspondent’s View
(Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received October 7, 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 7. “I think we have outclassed the Japanese in actual fighting as well as in strategy,” declared an Australian war correspondent who returned todiiy by air from the New Guinea theatre, lhe Japanese soldier is no longer fanatical, He is demoralized,” he added.. Io onr troops, it is a perfect tonic to see the Japanese running. ; “In great part, the war m New Guinea is a corporal’s war —-a war not of brass hats, but of hard heads. The corporal and his men are the mainstay of our The correspondent said that the mesent operations provided a combination of all elements which were going to win New Guinea back for the Allies, lhese were, firstly, the courage and resolution of the Australian soldier; secondly, the extraordinary technical qualities of the American engineer, whose skill had made possible the recent landings; and thirdly, the might of the combined Allied air forces which had pulverized objectives later occupied by our troops.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 11, 8 October 1943, Page 5
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174JAPANESE OUTCLASSED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 11, 8 October 1943, Page 5
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