REASONS FOR OPTIMISM.
Nevertheless, the "Sydney Morning Herald's" military commentator today points out that there are some grounds for optimism because of the basic changes in the Pacific position since the Guadalcanal and Owen Stanley campaigns last year. These are principally the great increase in Allied air power and the Allied possession of strategically sited air bases from which to attack Japanese strongholds. Also, the double nature of the Solomons and New Guinea attacks will force the enemy to divide his defensive air forces. The same writer anticipates heavy fighting in the Lae-Salamaua-Mubo area, which the Japanese have been fortifying for the past 16 months. Veteran Australian troops from the Middle East are driving from Mubo to join up with the Americans who landr ed at Nassau Bay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 5
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128REASONS FOR OPTIMISM. Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 5
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