DESPERATE STRAITS
JAPS ON GUADALCANAR FACE STARVATION (Reed. 7 p.m.) New Tork, Jan. ■«. The American air and naval filockado in the Solomons has reduced 20,000 Japanese soldiers to serious hunger, with a precarious margin in their supply of ammunition. Informed officials believe the Japanese are rapidly approaching desperate straits and ean be relieved only by a new successful naval action. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says recent Navy communiques confirm reports of lessening Japanese resistance in the Solomons. “However, the Japanese are expected to light to the bitter end," he adds. “But a process is under way which, it is hoped, will reduce those Japanese on Guadalcanar to impotent weakness at the lowest cost in American lives. Many Japanese soldiers have left, their main organisations and have taken to the hills, where they have formed little suicide attack groups."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 4
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