SERIOUS VIEW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 3

SERIOUS VIEW

TAKEN OF LATEST ENEMY EFFORT. COMMENT IN NEW YORK. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 15. The seriousness with which the Navy views the enemy’s latest manoeuvres in the Solomons is emphasised by the speed with which the announcement was made, says the Associated Press Washington correspondent. The Japanese activities contain a grim, new significance not hitherto attached to their movements in the South-West Pacific. They have not previously succeeded in bombarding the airfield or main installations. Furthermore troops landed from transports were covered by naval units, ineaning undoubtedly that not only men, but artillery, in which they were previously deficient, were got ashore, also supplies- , The “New York Times” Washington correspondent say it is possible that the renewed action lends some support to foreign reports that a large Japanese fleet has moved into the SouthWest Pacific. The facts in the latest Navy communique, even without elaboration by official sources, indicate the possible necessity of recasting the hitherto optimistic view of the Solomons action, if the Japanese are willing, as they seem to be, to expend all the force necessary, and to make any sacrifice in an attempt to recapture the Guadalcanal’ airfield.