WAR IN PACIFIC

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 4

WAR IN PACIFIC

ALLIES GETTING UPPER HAND HOPEFUL VIEW OF NEW YORK PAPER. FEEBLE JAPANESE REPLY TO ALLIED BLOWS. (By Telegraph'—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 29. The United States is committed to the recapture of Wake Island and Kiska Island, since both are vital to the Allied strategy of attack against Japan, says the “New York Times” editorially analysing the Pacific situation. “To our spreading offensive against Wake, Kiska and Paramushira” (in the Kurile Islands) it adds, “the Japanese response has been surprisingly light. Indeed their one counter-blow has been a futile raid on Canton Island. Their battle fleet has remained in hiding, while we have engaged and defeated their light naval forces on four occasions. Nowhere, either in the north or south Pacific, have the Japanese been able to relieve their garrisons.

“Even at Paramushira, at the threshold of their homeland, they could not down a single attacking plane. The war in the Pacific has assumed a different character. We are getting the upper hand.”