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LONG WAR

PARTICULARLY IN PACIFIC ANTICIPATED BY AMERICAN MINISTER. JAPAN STILL FORMIDABLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 5. Optimistic predictions that Germany and Japan were about to crumble were not based on solid fact, said the Under-Secretary for War (Mr. Robert Patterson) addressing C. 1.0. United Automobile workers. “The considered opinion of General Marshall and other military leaders,” Mr. Patterson added, “is that there is a long, hard struggle ahead. Thus far United States casualties have been low compared with those of its Allies. The Russians have borne the brunt of German power for more than two years, at a cost of ten million Russian soldiers killed, wounded or captured. The time is at hand when we will be striking heavy blows and carrying an increasing part of the burden. Our Army and Navy have done a great job in the South-West Pacific. Although cur submarines have cut large and important holes in the Japanese supply linos, Tokio still.sits at the top of a great sweep of territory undamaged, busy at war production and thus far fairly safe. It looks like a long war in the Pacific. Air and sea power can win it, but not in a hurry. Japan has three million men under arms and can call up twenty more divisions if they are needed. The Japanese Fleet still dominates the Western Pacific, from Kamchatka to the Marshall Islands, and continues to be a major obstacle to our effective land and sea operations. America's main advantage in the war is her ability to produce weapons. To accomplish the defeat of Germany and Japan will demand whole-hearted and single-minded effort by every man and woman in the country.”

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
286

LONG WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 4

LONG WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 4

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