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The Japanese forces are reported to be strongly entrenched in prepared positions on high ground on the centre of Tulagi, and fighting stubbornly. Prominence is given here to an article by Washington columnist Drew Pearson, who says the Allied offensive in the Solomons is' a race against time to prevent the Japanese from fortifying the'captured South Pacific islands. '■' "The/Japanese have been fortifying the Solomons at breakneck speed," Mr. Pearson says. "They have been building. aeroplane runways, fuel depots, and^s anti-aircraft emplacements. The Navy had to move before the Japanese got too deeply entrenched. Some strategists figure that if the Japanese are given a year to fortify the South Pacific, islands; it will take from three to four years to dislodge them.!' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 3
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