WHO IS WINNING IN PACIFIC?"
WALL STREET JOURNAL’S QUESTION I Reed. 8.10 pm.) New York. Dec. 19 The Washington correspondent of H e Wail Street Journal to-day ask. the question: "Who is winning the war in the Pacific? ’ "To know the answer.' he savs, "watch for these events: Il Singapoie falls <Washington thinks it won': Japan will have won a big victory. If Manila falls < mixed confidence and worry heret tiie Japanese will hav. won a medium victory. The same lot Hongkong and Penang. If Wake ano Midway Islands fall the Japanese wi'i have won a little. More importa.lt United States failure to -einforci these citadeLs would be a confession of weakness on the sea and in the a ' . That is the big test. Watch for it.
"Any base that is lost—Guam or Singapore—must be retaken. If Russia should give the United Slates a : r bases (don't be surprised if sne deeg when the time is right) Washington will cheer."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 301, 22 December 1941, Page 5
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160WHO IS WINNING IN PACIFIC?" Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 301, 22 December 1941, Page 5
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