NEWS AWAITED
OF OUTCOME OF NAVAL BATTLE. i HOPES BASED ON ALLIED FLEET. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, October 18. What little late news has been received of the fighting in the Solomon Islands is of a sombre _ character. It is revealed from Washington that in face of the apparent Japanese sea, and air control the American anxiety about the outcome is growing. However, beyond the earlier report that a nayal battle was raging, no official mention has been made of the operations by the strong Allied naval force which is somewhere in the rea. , Now that the American land-based air-power has been so seriously crippled, it is on the hidden operations of the Allied fleet that the final outcome will depend. , Japan’s first objective of neutralising the American land-based air power on the vital Henderson airfield appears to have been accomplished, and the secrecy-shrouded sea battle must be the final determining factor.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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