NOTICE SERVED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1942, Page 2

NOTICE SERVED

t ENEMY NOWHERE SECURE AGAINST ATTACK ' SIGNIFICANCE OF DIEPPE & SOLOMONS. VIEWS OF AMERICAN WRITER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 21. In the “New York Times,” Mr Hanson Baldwin points out resemblances between the Dieppe and Solomons operations. Both test the strength of the enemy and both create minor diversions and serve notice on the enemy that he is nowhere secure against attack. Both involved relatively small forces and both proved that nations controlling so vast a coastline as Japan and Germany cannot prevent landings on their territory. Both also proved that the difficulties of the attackers only begin after landings. In the Solomons, certainly, the difficulties are only beginning, Mr Baldwin states. Although the cost has been high, the toll must be continuing. Indeed it is possible that the Solomons expedition may eventually lead to a great fleet and air engagement that will profoundly affect the Pacific war. But Dieppe and the Solomons also carry a deeper significance and 'show that the United Nations are conducting unified amphibian operations in which all arms participate and are finishing their final combat training. Gradually limited offensives have grown in intensity and gradually the initiative passes from the enemy.