SOLOMONS BLOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 3

SOLOMONS BLOW

ASSESSED IN AUSTRALIA

AMERICAN CAUTION

(By Telegraph—rress Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Rec. 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 11. American war correspondents in Australia, commenting on the Solomons operations, ar.e more cautious in assessing the value of the offensive than are observers in the United States. The "New York Herald Tribune" ; representative here warns that it would be foolish to believe that the Japanese will await the outcome of the Solomons battle before continuing their planned movements elsewhere. ' Unless the Allies get at., the heart of the. Japanese concentrations ' quickly, they may move at any time, he says. The correspondent of the "New York Times" shares the same belief, and states that while the Japanese -have suffered heavy air losses, they have replacements within reach, and they may, furthermore, become sufficiently alarmed by the Solomons action to deflect to the islands units of their major naval and aerial armadas. DANGER REDUCED? Although most of the American correspondents, here take the view that the . attack will result in greatly reducing the. danger to Australia, the "New York Times" correspondent remarks: "Except for the enemy forces actually engaged in the Solomons battle, every other threat which the Japanese present remains the same as it was last week, and those threats are substantial," San Francisco radio said this morning that .American forces have, landed tanks in the Tulagi area of the Solomons, where bridge-heads have - been established. Flying 'Fortresses are helping to cover the American assault. New York radio says the United States Marines are now exerting - all their efforts to improve their position.