DECLARATION BY NIMITZ

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 117, 13 November 1943, Page 7

DECLARATION BY NIMITZ

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PEARL HARBOUR, November 12. "The Japanese have been relatively unmolested in large areas, but from now on we propose to give them no rest anywhere, as our time has come to strike," said Admiral C. W.'Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific;* reviewing the Pacific situation in a broadcast* < . • "For two years we faced the necessity of containing the eher-iy. while gathering strength to drive through the vitals of his defensive system^ Now we are getting the men, ships, and planes. Our north flank in the Aleutians ■• has been secured, while the intensified attacks in the South-west and ■ South i

Pacific have placed the Japanese in a precarious position. "We have no, illusions about the opposition we encounter. We know our ships and planes alone cannot be destroyed. The Japanese have dug themselves in. We must land and dig them out." Admiral Nimitz warned listeners not to be impatient for news of battles be-, cause there were many times when security would require no immediate disclosure of the result of actions.