Increased Jap Strength In South Pacific
Received Friday, 8.0 p.m. WASHINGTON, Mar. 11. “I am not overstating it when I say things look bad in the pacific,” declared Senator Robert Reynolds, chairman ofjffie Senate Military Affairs CommitHe added: ‘‘The Bismarck Sea victory had caused jubilation among thoughtless Americans hut sober reflection to those attempting a glimpse of the future. A vaguely projected grand offensive against Japan proper might prove futile unless it is undertaken soon. “By the time we get around to it,” warned Senator Reynolds, “Japan may have completed the establishment of fully a dozen political, economic, industrial and military zones as powerful as those contained in her homeland triangle of Nagasaki Yokohama Hakodate. An assault on each of these centres would be fully as difficult and costly as an attack on Japan proper. We would have to storm them all to win the war.” The United States Secretary of War (Mr. H. L. Stimson) said there was evidence that Japan had increased her strength in the Southern Pacific, particularly north of Australia. There was ample evidence that hard fighting lay ahead.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 61, 13 March 1943, Page 5
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