JAPANESE REACTION
THREAT TO MARSHALLS NAVAL CLASH HINTED (10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 24. “The invasion of the Gilberts constitutes a threat to the Marshalls and presages a real, decisive battle of fleets in which the Imperial Navy is seeking to demonstrate its invincibility,” said the Tokio official radio. “In the present counter-offensive the Americans are trying to advance in the central Pacific by making the Gilberts a second Guadalcanal’. “The strategic significance of the counter-offensive is extremely great in view of the fact that the Gilberts are adjacent to our mandated territory, the Marshalls. Indeed, the entire area of the so-called inner South Seas, on whose eastern side lies Jaluit Island, is the navy’s immovable strategic sphere and its largest area of operations. “Japan must defend at all costs the inner ring of defences because the invasion of the Gilberts shows America’s desire to secure springhoards for an attack against the heart of the empire. The Japanese Navy welcomes a show-down in which it will demonstrate its mettle and skill.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21261, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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