IMPORTANT MOVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1942, Page 5

IMPORTANT MOVE

(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 4. The establishment of bases on the Andreanov Islands enables the United States to launch attacks on the nearby Japanese positions at Kiska, and also to forestall any enemy attempt to steal a further march northward, says the "New York Herald Tribune's" Washington correspondent. The manoeuvre is the most important American move in the north Pacific since the outbreak of war. It establishes firmly the American hold on the majority of the Aleutian Islands stretching close to Kamchatka and Siberia. The fact that the army is using longrange bombers from the newly-estab-lished airfields indicates that the United States intends to strike further than the Japanese footholds in the Aleutians, and possibly is aiming ,at the Japanese Kurile Island chain, near Japan itself. The occupation of the Andreanov Islands was accomplished without opposition or loss of life, according to the Associated Press correspondent .with the expedition, which constituted the largest convoy of American ships ever to sail the north Pacific. The convoy, a motley collection of heavy warships, destroyers, transports, power barges, converted yachts, and four-masted codfish schooners, proceeded at a snail's pace, offering the Japanese a splendid target, of which they were unaware, or were afraid to tackle.