TOKIO ADMISSION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21548, 30 October 1944, Page 3

TOKIO ADMISSION

PHILIPPINES’ PLIGHT “AMERICANS POURING IN” JAPS. OUTCLASSED IN AIR (11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 29. “The situation in the Philippines lias taken a serious turn tor the Japanese. The Americans are throwing in all their strength to determine the fate of the Pacific. The enemy’s design cannot be disregarded and, consequently, the war situation cannot be viewed with optimism. This statement was made Dy the Tokio radio, which added: “The Americans are pouring in reinforcements at a rapid rate. Twenty or 30 American transports arrived yesterday in Leyte Gulf. The Americans have restored ali the airfields lying within the Tacioban and JUulag areas aim are trying uesperateiy to construct more airfields.” The Tokio broadcast inferred that the Japanese are outclassed in the air and said that an average of 300 American planes raided undisclosed targets m me Philippines in Thursday and Friday. Japanese aircraft attached American siiips and landing positions with relentless vigour. “But it is obvious, despite me great enemy loss off Formosa, the Philippines and Leyte Gulf, that an enemy task force of substantial strength is infesting the nearoy waters of the Philippines,” added the broadcast. “Moreover, when considering the enemy carrier strength, together with the number of land-based planes along the coast of New Guinea, future conditions of aerial war require great caution.”