CLEARING ISLAND OF THE ENEMY
WASHINGTON, January 24. Guadalcanal is being cleared of all effective enemy opposition. Only 4000 Japanese remain alive out of 15,000 who were originally landed on the island. The United States forces have killed 8000, and a further 3000 have died from wounds, disease, or starva? tion. These1 facts have been disclosed by a marine officer, Lieut-Colonel Lewis Puller, in an officially sponsored interview. Colonel Pullar, who left Guadalcanal on New Year's Day, said: "The Japanese on the island are through as far as a real fighting force is con-| cerned. 1 expect we won't have much j trouble in cleaning up the rest." Colonel Pullar added that he did not regard Munda, the new enemy air base on New Georgia Island, as a serious threat The Japanese did not have any effective bases south of Bum, in the northern Solomons. The "New York Times" comments that Colonel Pullar's report indicates that Guadalcanal is now safe as an
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 5
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