ENEMY'S DEFENCE LINE
DOUBLE OFFENSIVE UNDER WAY ALLIES ATTACKING BOTH EKDS . (Eec. 8 a.m.) Washington, Feb. i. The Associated Press Washington correspondent says bombing of Wake Island was probably a diversionary operation in connection with tihe operations against the MarshalLs, 800 miles to the south. The fact that the heavy unwieldy flying boats did not suffer losses suggests that the earlier American attacks affected Wake Island's de- • fence system. Major Fielding Eliot suggests that a co-ordinated offensive may be under way in which the Japanese will be struck at both ends of their far-flung . defensive line, at the Marshalls and at Rabaul. Japanese air power is no 1 longer able to meet two widelyseparated offensives simultaneously, therefore the best- strategy would be to apply such a double strain. We now seem to possess sufficient means in the Pacific theatre to be able to do this. •
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Evening Star, Issue 25089, 2 February 1944, Page 5
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