POWER INCREASING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 119, 20 April 1942, Page 5

POWER INCREASING

FORECAST OF FL'TOK NEW YORK, April 19. The New York Times in a leading article- says: The successful attack made hv "American bombers on the great cities of Tokio. Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya is a forecast of things to come, ft is proof that our long-range striking power in the Pacific is rapidly increasing, and it warrants the hope for believing that the day is not greatly distant when we can carry the attack in force to the heart of the Japanese- Empire, using not only seaplanes based on carriers hut also land planes based in Alaska, China and ultimately Siberia itself. "In these attacks we will, no doubt. destroy as we have already destroyed much 'civilian property, it is an unhappy business hut it is a necessary'business for it is inescapably a part of total war and we cannot shrink from giving the heaviest blows we can deliver." r . , The chairman of the Congressional Military Committee, Senator May, who last week predicted that lokio would he bombed shortly, told reporters, It is the beginning of a general offensive against Japan." Also Mr Vinson, chairman of the Naval Committee expressed the opinion to the Press, that "the bombing indicates that the Allies have started an offensive." The majority leader of the House ol Representatives, Mr McCormack, said: "Krom now on the Japanese can expect to he at the receiving end. Jhe chairman of the Appropriations (. oininittce. Mr Snyder, said. "I predicted in January that Tokio would be bombed before May; I now predict that it will be bombed from many quarters before July."