HUON PENINSULA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1943, Page 4

HUON PENINSULA

SPRINGBOARD FOR ASSAULT ON RABAUL TACTICS TURNED AGAINST JAPANESE. AMERICAN ANTICIPATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) NEW YORK, September 30. “The Allies will soon have the whole Huon Peninsula in New Guinea as a springboard for a naval assault on New Britain and Rabaul,” says the “New York Times.” Thanks to our domination of the air, each step we take by land and sea is longer than the last. “The Japanese,” the paper adds, “find their own tactics of infiltration and outflanking, applied so successfully on the ground in the conquest of their new empire, now turned against them. They are being rapidly dislodged from strong positions on a scale which steadily widens thp field of their reverses. Strongholds which formerly would have taken months merely to reach are suddenly invested or attacked from the rear by seaborne troops, supported and supplied from the air.” “LONG WAY FROM TOKIO” OFFENSIVE ON GREAT SCALE NEEDED. (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, September 30. The “Evening Standard” says: “The war in the Far East has reached a psychological turning point. Yet we are still a long way from Tokio, whether by land or sea. It is only an offensive which carries us to the Japanese homeland that will destroy Japanese morale finally and for ever.”