ENEMY ADVANTAGE
FIGHT WAGED FROM LAND BASES
(Rec. 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 11. "Japan's soldiers have shown themselves masters of fighting in the Tropics. No one can imagine that the expulsion of these stolid fighters from the very many positions which they have seized will he either quick or easy," states the "Manchester Guardian" in discussing the battle in the Solomons. The battle is to the enemy's advantage, the newspaper states, because he is fighting from land while the Allies have had to begin from transports. The Japanese are reported to have built air bases on Guadalcanal', and these will be stocked with defensive bombers. Japan's aim would be to send reinforcements to these, bases, and the Allies are attempting to destroy them before they can take off. from New Guinea and New Britain. "How successful we have been with our carrier-based planes against the land-based Japanese we do not yet know," the newspaper continues, "but it is remarkable that in the long list of successes claimed by Japan no mention ■is made of any Allied aircraft-carrier being hit, although these ships, in the background, would have been the first targets."—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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191ENEMY ADVANTAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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