PARTLY A SECOND FRONT

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 2

PARTLY A SECOND FRONT

REOCCUPATION OF ALEUTIANS.

P.A. Cable.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.

The Army and Navy Journal, an authoritative Service publication, ccntends that the United States, in moving to reoccupy the Aleutians, is partly complying with Mr Stalin's wishes by establishing a seeond front directly affecting the fertunes of Russia. It says: "Our drive to eliminate the Japanese from the Aleutians is connected with the Soviet's magniflcent defence, for the Japanese fleefc lies athwart Vladivostok, blocking the transportation of needed supplies from the United States to the Soviet European armies via the trans Siberian railway. The reconquest of the Aleutians will enable the United States to co-operate with the Russian Army should the Japanese attack J Siberia." \ The Japanese are beginning to suffer from lack of shipping, says the New York Times's Stockholm correspondent, who quotes the Tokio coiTespondent of the Hamburger Fremdemblatt. To provide sufficient ships to maintain supply routes to its South Pacific conquests, the Japanese Government has decreed that shipments of coal, iron and steel within Japan will henceforth be earried by rail instead of by steamers, resulting in the restriction of railroad passenger traffic. Cabinet members have warned the people not to under-estimate the j enemy, and also to prepare for aerial attacks on their home islands.