MATTER OF TIME
GUADALCANAL JAPS. Cannot Stand Heavy Losses Being Inflicted N Z. Press Association.-— Copyright Bee. 1 p.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. "The cleaning out of the Japanese on Guadalcanar is just a matter 01 time," declared a high-ranking American officer on the island. Nobody can stand the kind of losses they have been having. Fifteen Japanese are being killed for each American lost." TT „-+^ Since August the combined united States Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force in the Solomons have destroyed 800 Japanese fighters, according to Colonel Laveme Saunders, ' commander of the army heavy bomi bardment forces. The ratio ox Japanese to American plane losses is six to one. American torpedo boats hit two Japanese destroyers, and possibly a third, off Guadalcanar Island in the Solomons. After the encounter the enemy steamed off to the north-west. On the island of Guadalcanar the Americans are still gaining ground.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 12, 15 January 1943, Page 3
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