SOLOMONS DRIVE
A CONFIDENT FORECAST (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent)
SYDNEY. Aug. 9.
The capture of Munda means that the United States forces are now in a position to drive the Japanese from the Solomons by the end of the year. This view is expressed by Mr Joseph Driscoll, New York Herald-Tribune correspondent at South Pacific headquarters, who adds that the Allied drive must be accompanied by a greatly increased flow of planes and war materials. “This will be necessary because the Japanese are expected to make a ‘ last ditch ’ stand on Bougainville Island, in the Northern Solomons, and on the Rabaul-New Britain front.” Commenting on the doleful American comment that at the present rate of advance it will take the Allies many years even to wrest her newlywon possessions from Japan, the Sydney Morning Herald to-day says in an editorial that the capture of outlying bases “ the hard way ” is an inescapable necessity. Although Rabaul may eventually have to be taken in a similar fashion the difficulties and sacrifices involved are not without compensations which eventually should assist to make the Allied task less formidable with each forward bound.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25300, 10 August 1943, Page 3
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