FINAL BATTLE PENDING
CONFIDENCE IN OUTCOME EXPRESSES (Rec. ,12.15-p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 6. The final and possibly the toughest battle of the Leyte Campaign is impending in the Ormoc area, says the United Press correspondent on Leyte Island. There is an air of confidence at American/headquarters. A high-ranking officer expressed the opinion that all organised opposition on Leyte might be quelled within a fortnight. Despite the enemy's attempts to turn Leyte into another Guadalcanal, General Kreuger expressed confidence at the way the campaign is going, and showed ho concern at Japanese reinforcements through Ormoc. He said: "Let them come. The .more Japs they put there the fewer we will have to kill later."
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Evening Star, Issue 25326, 7 November 1944, Page 5
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