“MORNING PAPER RUN”

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24371, 25 September 1944, Page 4

“MORNING PAPER RUN”

NEWS SERVICE TO JAPANESE (R.N.Z.A.F. Official News Service) BOUGAINVILLE, Sept. 21. New Zealand Ventura crews have commenced operating a service over Bougainville and Buka which they describe as the “morning paper run.’ Every four days, news of the progress of the war in the Pacific is dropped in pamphlet form to the Japanese forces holding strongpoints in these islands. Maps and diagrams, appropriately annotated, show the Allied forces closing in on the Japanese mainland and record the gains made each week. These also show the hopeless position of many thousands of the enemy who have been trapped or isolated in the Solomons. New Britain. New Ireland, the Admiralties, New Guinea, and the Celebes. “The morning paper run ” is reported to be taking effect. Force is lent to its arguments by the daily bomb dose handed out to the enemy. The pamphlets inform the enemy of the overwhelming superiority held by the Allies in the number of warships, aircraft, and artillery, and state that with huge American naval task forces roaming the seas at will, many Japanese supplv ships and transports are being sent to the bottom. It is pointed out that Japan has already lost one ally through the fall of Italy and faces the prospect of losing her only other ally —Germany. A warning is given that after the collapse of Germany, the Allies, with the entire armies of America. England, China, and Holland, will be free to turn their attention to Japan. In conclusion the enemy forces are told that those of them who realise the hopelessness of their situation, may step forward with dignity and receive kind treatment. 1 ,