TOUGH FIGHT
RESULT NOT DETERMINED YET. COMMENT BY COLONEL KNOX. — t (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON, October 16. Asked at a Press conference if he thought the American positions in the Solomons could be held, the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, replied: "I certainly hope so, and I expect so. I don’t want to make predictions, but every man out there, afloat and ashore, will give a good account of himself.” When a reporter asked if his statement “I expect so” was a prediction, Colonel Knox replied, “Don’t pin me down on a specific word. There is nothing I can say beyond the information in the communiques. There is a real fight on out there. Of course every American hopes we will win, but there is no concealing that we are in a stiff, tough fight, and the result has not yet been determined.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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