Japs, Admit Cannot Maintain Supply Lines

Northern Advocate, 25 August 1943, Page 3

Japs, Admit Cannot Maintain Supply Lines

NEW YORK. August 23

Japan cannot maintain long supply lines and must defend the homeland first, was the acknowledgment made by Tckio radio, according to the Office for War Information.

The radio said: “Geographically. Kiska and Attu were extremely disadvantageous, and required maintenance of long supply routes and communications. We must construct a first line of defence from which we must directly defend Japan proper. "The enemy air raid on the northern district of Japan on August 12, clearly indicated the gravity of the situation. (The Americans bombed the Kuriles on August 12). At the same time an enemy counter-offensive is being carried out fiercely in the southern regions. centred on Munda, also decisive battles of the greatest intensity are raging in New Guinea and the Solomons. We cannot overlook an enemy counter-offensive from India and from the interior of China. Of course, in some of these decisive battles our forces may suffer defeats. “People should remember the ‘serious battle’ and make greater strides forward to increase production. Our battlefront is a continuous, decisive conflict night and day. The Japanese people should send more planes, aircrews and materials to the battlefronts, where the imperial forces are fighting under unfavourable circumstances against an enemy of superior material strength.’’