INVASION TACTICS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 5

INVASION TACTICS

SOLOMONS BATTLE CONJECTURE IN US. y/AR COUNCIL DISCUSSION (By Telegraph—-Press- Assn.— Copyright.) (2.30 p.m.) NEW YQftK.' Aug.-' 12. Interesting conjecture about the course of-, the Sol onion’s ; battle ,is offered by the Washington'correspondent of the quoting an unnamed naval officer. He says the action'may have taken the following form since Friday: First, a bombardment of enemy aerodromes by arfny and navy bombers arid torpedo planes; secondly, a .struggle for air supremacy; ’thirdly, an, advance by the heaviest American ■ surface units,; adding their gunfire barrage to.thei aerial bombardment and helping to[ provide a protective curtain l'Or the 1 [landing of troops: fourthly, possible 1 paratroop landings to aid the com-" nianclos from the transports . and| [barges: fifthly, the shelling of enemy air .arid atroop bases, by cruisers ami ;destroyers plunging-towards the shore' I under, an' umbrella of aq'rial and riijval; j fire; sixthly, 'aircraft-carriers Standtngby with battleships, cruisers and des-1 Jtroyers. between them and-the- enemy,; Lending planes repeatedly, against [the Japanese. 1 At i a meeting of the Pacific War Council at the White House, the Solomons battle was! principally discussed. The ;Chipose-delegate, Dr..T. ;V. -Soong,--.’Saidl tha-t-TChina >was much; encouraged by the offensive; and added .that available';news oMhe arcrtionflviMsfiimited. ''T?ie Dutch representative in Lon-; don [grid'gjtV Reginald Hjxon, the Aus-, traliriri delegate,, .remairied '-wjth Prris-; iden.tr,Roosevelt for an additional conference-; after- .the ,'ojher rperiiMrs i-ha& left. -The reason'for this conferencewas not disclosed.- f * -.-13