TALK IN JAPAN
DESIRE FOR NAVAL SHOWDOWN. NEW YORK, November 24._ The invasion of the Gilberts constitutes a threat to the Marshalls and presages a real decisive battle of fleets which the Imperial Navy is seeking to demonstrate its invincibility, said the .Tokio official radio. In the present counter-offensive, America is trying to advance in the Central Pacific by making the Gilberts a second Guadalcanal. The strategic significance of the coun-ter-offensive is extremely great in view of the fact that the Gilberts are. adjacent to our mandated territory in the Marshalls. Indeed, the entire area of the so-called inner South Seas on whose eastern side lies Jaluit Island is the navy’s immovable strategic sphere and its largest area of operations. “Japan must defend at all costs her inner ring of defences because the invasion of the Gilberts shows America s desire to secure springboards for an attack against the heart of the empire. The Japanese Navy welcomes a showdown in which it will demonstrate its mettle and skill.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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168TALK IN JAPAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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