ALTERNATIVE ACTION
PREVENTED BY LACK OF FORCES London, Jan. 1. Admiral Yates Stirling, junr., noting the Allied successes in New Guinea, believes that the next move will lie in New Britain and New Ireland. “But even with these islands and the Solomons in our possession,” he says, "Japan's main defences will not be dented. To crush the Japanese Island by island probably would require many years' use of men, warships and planes. "Therefore, more rapid means must be devised to reach Japan’s source of power—tlie home islands. “There are two avenues of approach by air which are our best bet to knock out Japan in the minimum time and at the minimum cost in lives. Ths first is from the Chinese mainland, the second is the natural bridgehead of the Aleutians and Kamchatka, but so many other fronts need our men, planes, and ships that there does not seem to be sufficient strength available at present to open an Alaskan front.
“The time is coming, however, and when it does the end of the Japanese empire will be in sight."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 5
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