ATTACK TIMED
JAPAN AT PEAK OF STRIKING POWER. BUT SHORT OF SOME SUPPLIES. LONDON, December 9. The diplomatic correspondent of “The Times” says Japan has timed its attack for the moment when .it found itself at the top of its striking-power. The attack is not so much an act of desperation as of cold calculation similar to the German attack on Russia. Japan has food for at least two or three years, apart from the supplies she is counting on gaining. Japan has sufficient oil for at least 15 months, apart from her own inadequate but steady synthetic supplies. She is short of nickel and some non-ferrous metals but already possesses the finished products in artillery and ammunition and a growing navy. Japan, therefore, like Germany, is pitting her war machine, which is large but mainly limited, against Powers whose resources are not so highly developed but are mainly unlimited.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1941, Page 5
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