MORAL OF TULAGI OPERATION
ATTACKS ON JAPANESE (Sptclal Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) (Received August 16, 8.30 p.m.) rm. LONDON, August 15. Manchester Guardian” in a art |cle says: "It is possible the T,,u?,* se ’ Ending their hold round e P dan gered. will bring naval in it r i orcM from their strongholds 1” S* Caroline and Marshall Islands ,l* s P ut « command of the sea. T “ rst Allied ‘offensive’ against Rj® ' 8 greatly encouraging. Our task T *®? n aa Possible is to move against “multaneously at the several Pv«S?i ,P°mts which she offers. wnn®. pt o“ e small area of the SoloTnul an l 8 still smaller area in New amm)wi he J s not having to fight hard i j?*" P resen t. but her military va»f riistributed over distances so wi-.t/tet she cannot easily transfer gnt from one area to another, until n! e are to strain her resources In n.,!z y erack we have to attack her Rono!? 11 ? from India, in the Bay of Man,?. m , China, in the Aleutian i,i ”? S|1 a nd from the air in her home islands -The Tulagi operation may of a .I large in itself - bu t the moral In unquestionable success Pacific would be everywhere cesi il » 88 clear ly as a similar suehut gaiif'jt'’^ 6 and Afrlca ' could we JAPANESE BASE OUT OF COMMISSION (Received August 10, 8.20 p.m.) Rppnn*. • LONDON, August 15. Blano.° n^I l sance hy American aero*t i/r-stTv- that the Japanese base for u l & y } na * n Bur ma is still unfit Enpmv , sta t es a New Delhi message. «re also dTmagld Katha and M ° gaUng CHINESE CLAIM SUCCESSES CHEKIANG PROVINCE FIGHTING (Received August 16. 7,10 p.m.) A CHUNGKING, August 14. anew ifi 56 c °mrnunique says the JapCh.ki # ! u % red 500 casualties in the taese Province, Several light Japwhen it esae * s w ere sunk on August 7 riven tried to cross the Wu ese Tsing-tion. The Japannorth^r 33 0 casualties in a clash n °rth of Ling-yu.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23718, 17 August 1942, Page 5
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