EMPHASIS SHIFTING
SEA FIGHT TO DECIDE ■ ISSUE?
At a South Pacific Port,
•August 17,
The New Zealand Press Association correspondent at a South Pacific port last night stated that the latest reports of the fighting: in the Solomons emphasised a cardinal truth which underlay the whole future of the operation. This is that, now ihe Americans have established .satisfactory footholds on the various islands attacked, victory must eventually go to, the side which controls the sea*
The Allies cannot win the islands so long as the Japanese can fling in fresh forces, and they cannot hold and niaintairi the group for their own future strategical purposes unless they can keep their marine supply lines open. It is upon his fleet and his aircraft that Vice-Admiral Ghormley must depend for preventing the Japanese from.reinforcing the enemy troops which nre now in action.
The reports that the fleet has baoii in action '■after the br'rhfch^ad^ wow achieved clearly show thai the Japanese are worried about the future of the land fighting and are attempting
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1942, Page 5
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