SEIZURE URGED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 4

SEIZURE URGED

Japanese bases agTign iM PA&fld American pkEDidTIUNS (Py Tfeießtafiii—Press A'ssft.— CojyHkht.) (1.80 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 2. Operations to seize Japanese-held baSes stich ii's Raßaul, Wakb Island, and Tulagi are advocated bv the New York. Herald-Tribune's military correspondent-, Major Eliot. Onb of tlid signs suggesting that the United Nations may be gettihg ready to capitalise thb nawal advantage gained by the Gttrril Sea and Midway .Battles is. thb rebent American bombing of Wake Island. Other sighs, include .the intensified raids oh the Timor ahd New Giiihea areas. . tvdmblM a tririb is not. bnorigh. hbcriusb at fibst it. criri dritp UVevbht the ehbriiy risiftg ha'ses, wi’H'es . Major Flit, What is peecled is to. drive the JiibhH&e ottt df thbif. ribsltiohs arid con'vbrt ihbtri to btff b'wri. ftsb. The ferity wriy tb. taice jijb pbsiti'oriS. stich as Rabual, White Istan'd, and Tulagi te to,iaßa trbßßs arid take physical possession bf thb iri. , The Hew_ Yprk Times’. correspondent |tiggests that Wake Island may be retaken, rio.t oniy ,to avenge the mrii-ineS .Who died defending it; but bebriuse if wb could take hold of the island our lines would be advanced by rribre than ibffO riiilbs. It iriay rilsb.B'e Sigriiffcant that the censor parsed the ribWs bf thb rirfiVal of a ebriiplb.teiy btiUippbd fexpe'dltionary fferep bf, Alnbficah iriariries at a sbrith Pripifip pbrt, rbbbhtly, ris iriririri'eS Sffe ript risrially Sbht tb babes Wlifetfe abtiferi is ribt bxp'ebtbtf. it may well be that, we are pi ; eptit ; - ing tb Tbriri th‘e fftiit's bf tne .Cbfril Sea arid Mid’Way Vib.tbHbs. Sootier or, la.teL.tue Sr'eftbfit Sttubmate ih th'e SobtA.risliS r .-.Bfe-. '-Bhfeftgh- bri ri battleffeld bf Brir bWri chbbSlhg.